Trucks Collide-Giant Sheboygan Sausage Party
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Two semis collided Friday morning on Interstate 43 near county Highway AA, sending both drivers to the hospital and one truck over an embankment, scattering meat products along the highway. Photo by Eric Litke/The Sheboygan Press
Meat Products are strewn around near Dewitt Road and I-43 in Sheboygan County Friday after two trucks collided closing the southbound freeway for a while overnight. The freeway is now open but the cleanup is still going on as fire personnel and others clean up the meat.
Semi crash scatters meat across I-43, injures 2
By Eric Litke | Gannett Wisconsin Media | March 14, 2009
A semitrailer carrying a load of meat products crashed early Friday and scattered giant sausages across Interstate 43 near Oostburg, shutting down the roadway for about five hours, according to the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department.
The crash occurred about 1 a.m. at DeWitt Road, where firefighters spent hours clearing mounds of 2-foot-long tubes of meat from an embankment between I-43 and the rural roadway. Officials said the truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of meat, and about 3,000 pounds of that was strewn across the interstate.
The semi driver who caused the crash, Kenneth Diggs, 50, of Milwaukee, said he wasn’t watching the road when he rear-ended a semi ahead of him.
“He told officers that he was reaching across the cab to grab a CD,” said Lt. Mark Rupnik.
Diggs, who works for America’s Service Line Inc. of Green Bay, was southbound when he struck a semi driven by Fadrudin Ibrahimouic, 50, of Hoffman Estates, Ill., Rupnik said. Diggs then lost control of the truck, striking the guardrail and bridge face before rolling down the embankment.
Diggs’ truck came to rest on its side on DeWitt Road. He was taken to St. Nicholas Hospital for treatment of a sprained ankle and a hand injury and released later in the morning, Rupnik said.
Ibrahimouic, who pulled to the side of the road after the crash, was also treated for minor injuries and released.
Diggs was cited for inattentive driving.
The southbound lanes of I-43 were shut down until 6 a.m. from county Highway V to state Highway 32, a section about 8 miles in length, the department said. Dewitt Road from Sauk Trail to Frontage Road remained closed into the afternoon as a bulldozer and other equipment were used to clear meat that covered the embankment from Dewitt up to the level of the freeway.
Responding agencies included Oostburg Ambulance, Cedar Grove First Responders and the Oostburg and Cedar Grove fire departments.
Eric Litke writes for the Sheboygan Press.