[UPDATE 4:42 p.m.] Semi Upside Down In Clear Lake, Traffic Impacted on Hwy 20
Diesel is spilling into Clear Lake after a semi with a large load of wood crashed off Hwy 20 and onto its roof about 1:15 p.m. in the northern part of Clearlake Oaks, reports the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page.
The driver is out of the vehicle and uninjured.
Though the truck is out of the roadway, emergency vehicles are impacting Hwy 20, a primary east/west traffic route.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 4:18 p.m.: Shauna Dailey provided us with these photos of the semi. Not the road appears to be closed.
Semi upside down in Clear Lake.
[Photos from Shauna Dailey]
UPDATE 4:42 p.m.: The CHP Traffic Incident Information Page reports that the road will be closed until about 5:30 p.m.
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Lucky there was no fire! Glad the driver made it out alive.
why are you glad there was no fire? fire might have burned off the diesel that could be leaking into the lake. just being a contrarian
Extra treats for this one belly Up
Don’t you think that the Clear Lake area has had it’s fill of fires during the past 3 years?
~more than.
Now labeled by “the wise ones”, as the NORM, Wildfires -year round. It must take attention away from the invisible gigs aimed at us – even tho the end result is the same . . .we’re being fried alive.
Eden is burning, while we’re scrubbling along in a scheduled cool weather summer. West coast central.
The Great Pacific Northwest. Nice ring.
Is that a lumber truck or a water truck?
It’s a water truck now!
Oops. Glad the driver’s OK and glad it wasn’t upper Blue lake a bit further up the road. You can’t eat the fish in Clear lake- it is already an old EPA clean up site that will never really be successful- ongoing leakage/draining from an old mercury mine.
The tow truck driver will have fun turning this one over!
There are some bad corners and narrow road in that area. Speed, lack of attention, or forced off the road. Just glad the driver is ok.