Semi Overturned on 101 North of Leggett
Upside down trailer on 101 north of Leggett. [Photos provided by a reader]
The report also mentions that the release has been stopped and contained, although it remains unclear who will manage the cleanup operations. Additionally, there were three minor injuries reported in connection to this incident, according to the Report.
Further details from the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page indicate that the vehicle in question is a large white truck with a trailer containing soil, weighing approximately 42,990 lbs. It was also noted that the vehicle ended up on its roof on the opposite side of a concrete barrier.
Current traffic updates from Caltrans QuickMap reveal that traffic is moving slowly through the area affected by the overturned semi, indicating potential delays for travelers passing through this section of Hwy 101.
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Hard park, that would make anyone soil themselves.
I wish they flipped at my place. A full trailer of soil would make my year! I woulda made you coffee
The infamous Jitney Gulch bridge. I believe that bridge dates back to 1965 when it was built following the Dec 1964 flood. Why hasn’t it been replaced to eliminate such a tight curve?
I believe it was replaced in the ‘80s and was rebuilt exactly the same because the Coastal Commission said CALTRANS couldn’t change the landscape.
but if I coasted in on a Dodge Valiant to be a hippy in Humboldt County in ‘90 you could’ve missed it.
Just slow down for the conditions and it will be fine, the driver wasn’t even texting as there no service for miles.
if only he was going FASTER. everything would be so much better!!
If only there were flashing lights, a sign showing a truck tipping over and a posted 30 mph speed limit. ?
Back in the day, I remember a rig dumping his whole load of toilet seats, they were spread out all over the highway!
Caltrans should post a new sign: “It’s been __ days since the last truck rolled here.”
Jitney? How surprising.
Thats a tricky turn.
Am I the only one that thinks ” 60 gallons of hydraulic fluid” makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever?
They should leave the truck there as a warning to other semi-conscious truck drivers.
Ernie, thank you for catching this. I made a mistake. There were two accidents in Mendocino that had spills at the same time. I mixed them up. Your question made me go look again. Ugh, I hate when I screw up. My apologies. I’ve fixed the errors in the article now.
Kym
My apologies to you. I assumed that it was an on scene mistake. My Bad!
Hi Kym Kemp. Thank you for the updates! Do you know if that’s why traffic is stopped at Legget on the 101 currently? Thanks!
Yes, they are working on getting the semi towed. The CAD said one-way-traffic should be instituted around 2:30 pm so hopefully you’re moving through there now.
They have hydraulic fluid in the P.T.O. system on some trucks, they also hydraulic fluid in the power steering system, probably not 60 gallons though ?
Is that the in-famous ‘reverse-camber-curve-tightening-bridge’… which was built at a great cost so CalTrans wouldn’t have to go straight across the gully ?
Lots of chip trucks dumped over there.
The circumstance of the bridge being built there is that it was a bridge originally engineered for another location. After the 1964 flood the Northern California highway system was devastated. To engineer hundreds of highway repairs was out of the question. The plans for this bridge fit the location. So, the plans were grabbed of the shelf and build immediately.
If you look at Jitney Gulch you will realize that it is a steep straight crack in the mountain that goes steeply into the river below. The choice that was made back when this bridge was built was good one.
If you want lay the blame for why it is still there, thank Jerry Brown and Adriana Gianturco who stopped the Leggett freeway in its tracks by forming CalTrans to steal the hiway money for mass transit.
Somewhere else in California this bridge has a twin sister.
What part of the Leggett freeway was cancelled. The Leggett to Cummings portion opened in the mid 70s.
If you look to the west, at the north end end of the Leggett freeway, you will see the dirt ramp that was to be the bridge approach to cross the river. The freeway that was abandoned was to go down the west side of the river on the old Union Lumber company road. It is absolutely a better place for a road.
I think…. Ask a Caltrans engineer.
Thank you. So 101 would have been to the west of Standish Hickey?Would it have returned to the current right of way near old Grundy’s Cafe?
I don’t know, but at some point in would have to have come back to the Piercy freeway. Then the Piercy freeway was going to go to the east side of the river past Richardson grove and join at Twin trees.
I do not remember so many roll overs and crashes at this bridge when it first opened and even into the 70s and 80s. What happened to cause more issues now?
Trucks weren’t as powerful then and the main issue is new drivers with no experience and little to no on the job training etting behind the wheel of extremely powerful semis is the culprit nowadays
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it is just better reporting. Some agency must have accident records. It would be great to know,
The bridge actually has some camber in the right direction just not nearly enough
Deja Vu…
Same place…
23 months ago…
https://kymkemp.com/2022/04/20/big-rig-on-its-roof-slowing-traffic-on-hwy-101-north-of-leggett/
If you go far enough back in the archives… going to find about 50 or more photos like that.
You would ‘think’ that CalTrans has a map… that shows were traffic accidents were located, and over time they would deal with the problem areas.
Well, you’d think anyway.
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Go figure.
Thank Jerry Brown. He took the freeway money to build mass transit. The money is now being used to build a high-speed train to financial oblivion.
The fire depts have been advocating to cal Trans for years the need to replace that bridge and the response is always “there is no future plans to replace anytime soon” meanwhile they will replace and widen bridges along the coast on hwy 1 so they can have pedestrian and bike lanes pretty sad how this state has its priorities once they bypassed confusion hill we’ve seen a drastic decrease in semi rollovers all they would have to do is replace jitney gulch bridge and we’d hardly have any semi rollovers like we have today every year and this wreck marks two within several weeks of each other! I think we need to write our representatives about this issue that it posses to the public and the environment we spent 9 hours cleaning up hazardous materials leaked from semi lucky we were able to contain it from a storm drain as we first got at scene this morning a few years back when the gasoline tanker flipped it was an 12 hour hazmat cleanup and that one we weren’t so luck as many many gallons went down the same storm drain straight into the south fork eel river.
Much of the highway repair after the 1964 flood was done with Federal funding. One of the conditions of the funding was that the repairs would follow the original alignment. This condition prevented scope creep on repair projects. When the Jitney Gulch Bridge was build it was built in the original highway alignment.
This was one of many decisions on repairs made at the time and in hindsight this one was a poor decision by the then Division of Highways.