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Trucker Has Narrow Escape

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Jon Lewis
@ July 10, 2009 2:04 AM
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(WSB Radio)  The Georgia Department of Transportation has stopped all work on the Highway 92 Overpass near I-20 in Douglasville, after a man is nearly killed by a swinging cable.

Veteran truck driver Herman Griggs tells Channel 2 Action News he was on his routine route to Kennesaw, going under the Highway 92 Overpass, when he noticed a cable dangling in the air.

"I saw what I thought was a power cable in front of me dancing.  The truck in front of me made it.  I was braking pretty hard, and all of a sudden the windshield just exploded in my face," said Griggs.

He says had the cable hit a few inches closer, he would probably have been killed.

"I'll be just thanking the Lord that I'm all right," said Griggs.

Industrial Painting, Inc. had been painting the Overpass.  The D-O-T thinks the cable became entangled in the cable.  Work won't resume until the investigation is complete.

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What others are saying

  • Please forgive them
    Ya'll need to give these journalists a break. They have been edumicated in government skools and prolly spent way too much time listening to all that liberalism from their professors also.
  • the chick-fil-a cows could do a better job of prufreedin.
  • Brilliant
    "The D-O-T thinks the cable became entangled in the cable."
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