{"id":16461,"date":"2024-11-16T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-flown-to-hospital-after-swerving-off-overpass-to-miss-car\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T14:27:01","slug":"trucker-flown-to-hospital-after-swerving-off-overpass-to-miss-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/trucker-flown-to-hospital-after-swerving-off-overpass-to-miss-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker flown to hospital after swerving off overpass to miss car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A truck driver was injured after driving off of an overpass while swerving to miss a car in Idaho on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on November 14th at around 11:30 a.m. on Idaho Highway 77 near Declo, Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/2024\/11\/semi-driver-flown-to-hospital-after-driving-off-overpass-near-declo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EastIdahoNews<\/a>, a 21-year-old motorist from Carlsbad, California exited Interstate 84 and failed to yield before turning onto southbound Highway 77, right into the path of an oncoming semi truck. The 37-year-old trucker from Sonora, Mexico then swerved to miss the car and lost control. The semi truck then went through the guardrails and off of the overpass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver was injured in the crash and was flown to the hospital. Details of his condition are unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The roadway was blocked while crews worked to remove the semi truck with a crane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No further information has been released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/trucker-flown-to-hospital-after-swerving-off-overpass-to-miss-car\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver was injured after driving off of an overpass while swerving to miss a car in Idaho on Thursday.\u00a0 The accident happened on November 14th at around 11:30 a.m. on Idaho Highway 77 near Declo, Idaho. According to EastIdahoNews, a 21-year-old motorist from Carlsbad, California exited Interstate 84 and failed to yield before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}