{"id":18342,"date":"2025-01-31T01:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/semi-truck-that-crashed-through-frozen-lake-moments-after-driver-escaped-cab-still-sitting-there\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T01:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:43:31","slug":"semi-truck-that-crashed-through-frozen-lake-moments-after-driver-escaped-cab-still-sitting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/semi-truck-that-crashed-through-frozen-lake-moments-after-driver-escaped-cab-still-sitting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi truck that crashed through frozen lake moments after driver escaped cab still sitting there"},"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>Residents in Ontario are concerned about the environmental repercussions of a semi truck that is still sitting submerged in the frozen lake after an <a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/trucker-escapes-rig-just-before-its-swallowed-by-icy-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accident earlier this month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on January 12th, after the rig lost control on Highway 11 and skidded onto the frozen Lake Nipigon in Ontario, Canada. The driver was able to exit the cab just before the truck broke through the ice and plunged into the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snnewswatch.com\/local-news\/truck-submerged-in-lake-nipigon-for-over-two-weeks-10147713\">SN News Watch<\/a>, service vehicles were observed in the area on Thursday, January 30th, but their objective was not clear. Currently, the tractor trailer is submerged in the frozen lake with its back end sticking out of the water. A fence has been installed on the ice surrounding the truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No official plans regarding the removal of the commercial vehicle or environmental mitigation have been released by Ontario\u2019s Ministry of the Environment.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpegs.lynch%2Fposts%2Fpfbid019auskTpN37vJiJZAoqPSoKuXJ6kYeVQgKzhixAQHNwsbNF7wvEPAFY3gK6kS3nEl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"786\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/semi-truck-that-crashed-through-frozen-lake-moments-after-driver-escaped-cab-still-sitting-there\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Ontario are concerned about the environmental repercussions of a semi truck that is still sitting submerged in the frozen lake after an accident earlier this month.\u00a0 The accident happened on January 12th, after the rig lost control on Highway 11 and skidded onto the frozen Lake Nipigon in Ontario, Canada. The driver was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342"}],"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=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}