Heavy fog possible cause of accident
Submitted by Casscounty1 on
By Angela Guillory
A rollover accident happened early Monday morning near the rest area on Highway 59. Dispatch received the call at 4:22 a.m.
According to Trooper Daniel Britton the driver, Jeffery Smith, 53, of Queen City was traveling at an unsafe speed for the weather conditions due to heavy fog. Smith was headed south on Highway 59 driving a truck for John’s Iron and Metal. Britton said the driver straightened out the curve and left the road to the right. The truck and trailer overturned onto its right side and rested on its right side in the ditch dumping scrap metal over the area.
According to the report the driver received possible injuries. There was no other information on the driver’s condition.
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