A side order of shakes is contained in this trailer which turned over Tuesday morning after a dolly wheel collapsed. The trailer rolled into a power pole on the way over, causing a one-hour power outage to industrial and residential users north of Creswell. Driver of the tractor hauling the trailer was not hurt. PHOTO FROM THE CHRONICLE ARCHIVES
EXCERPT FROM OCT. 2, 1969 – Three men escaped serious injury in separate accidents in the Creswell area between Saturday night and noon Tuesday. Two of the mishaps involved trucks and the third a new off-the-road vehicle.
The first accident occurred shortly before midnight Saturday according to police who said a Chevrolet Blazer owned by John Presley, 20, former Creswell residents now residing in Klamath Falls plunged through a guardrail and into a slough some 15 feet below Market Road.
Police said Presley told them he didn’t know how he escaped from the vehicle, which landed wheels-up in the water. ”I just came to while I was swimming,” he reportedly told one investigating officer.
Presley was treated for minor head lacerations and issued a citation for violation of the basic rule, police said.
The second accident occurred Monday afternoon when an unloaded logging truck driven by R.H. Mast Rt. 3 Box 131 Reedsport, went through a red light at the intersection of old highway 99 and East Oregon Avenue and ran into the ditch.
Police said Mast apparently ”blacked out” as he was southbound toward the intersection. His truck hit two telephone poles but caused no service outage.
An overturned trailer caused a one-hour power outage for approximately 50 residential and industrial power users Tuesday morning when a semi-trailer overturned two miles north of Creswell on old Highway 99, snapping the top out of a power pole bearing a 22,000-volt primary line.
The driver of the truck, Richard Henry Haller, 40, of Torrance, Calif., said he had disconnected the trailer shortly before a dolly wheel slipped into a hole and the trailer tipped over.
The truck, which belongs to Premiere Aluminum Product of Gardena, Calif., was delivering a load of cedar shakes to Ridge Co. when the accident occurred.
