Runaway Lettuce Truck Lands in Man's Kitchen
Saturday, January 26, 2008
ShareA truck carrying boxes of lettuce drifted off an interstate highway in southern Utah and didn't stop until it plowed into a man's kitchen.
The Utah Highway Patrol identified the driver as Ernest King, a 54-year-old Canadian whose body was taken to Salt Lake City for an autopsy.
Investigators believe King fell asleep at the wheel or had a medical problem when he veered Thursday off northbound Interstate-15 eight miles from the Arizona border.
Sgt. Dan Ferguson said King didn't hit the brakes or swerved once when he left the highway, ran over a fence, hit three parked cars and crashed into four units of a housing complex.
David Clark and a friend had just sat down in his kitchen when the truck came crashing through a wall and stopped, Wendy Woolsey told The Spectrum of St. George.
Clark and Woolsey survived with minor injuries.
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