Tower Struck - 12.27.22 (Canada)

[TowForce]

Low Cost Towing Reported:

Tonight something horrific happened just outside of Swift Current on HWY 1. One of our tow truck heavy wreckers was assisting a semi that was in a ditch and needed a winch out service. While our operator was working on their truck another semi struck our wrecker and the truck we were assisting.

 

Our tow truck is extremely damaged and our operator was injured. He is currently recovering with his family by his side. Our tow family is shaken and can’t understand how this could happen.

 

Slowing to 60 and moving over when approaching a tow truck with all their blue and amber lights on is the law. This law is not new and people need to start obeying the laws in place that help save lives.

 

Road conditions were extreme and obviously this semi unit was traveling too fast for conditions. Visibility was not an issue and could be seen for miles. Accidents like this one should never happen, please obey the law and save a tow truck operators life.

 

 

[TowNews]

Penner International truck involved in icy wreck in Saskatchewan

 

 

 

A driver from Penner International was involved in a wreck Tuesday evening on the icy roads west of Swift Current. 

 

Swift Current Rural RCMP responded to the call along the Trans Canada Highway, near Beverley, at approximately 7:05 pm. Police arrived on scene to find a damaged tow truck and two damaged semi-trucks, including one from Penner International.

 

At the time of the incident, the heavy wrecker, belonging to Low Cost Towing of Swift Current, was hooked to the front of the semi unit via winch lines and was attempting to winch it out. The operator of the tow truck was underneath the winched semi unit repairing an air leak. 

 

A second semi-truck, a tractor-trailer unit, collided with the semi in the ditch and the tow truck, causing extensive damage to the wrecker and pushing the semi-truck the tow truck operator was working on, into the wrecker. 

 

As a result of the crash, three people were taken to hospital: the tow truck operator with injuries described as non-life-threatening; a passenger in the stuck semi with injuries described as serious but non-life-threatening; and the driver of the stuck semi, as a precaution.  

 

In a statement from Low Cost Towing of Swift Current, Owner Cindy Remple, said that after the incident, the operator immediately went to check on other individuals involved in the crash while another motorist on the highway that witnessed the accident called emergency services. 

 

"Our operator was taken to the hospital to get checked over and has been released and is at home with his family," she states. "He is scraped up pretty good and is very sore and bruised but will recover."

 

In Saskatchewan, the law states that drivers must slow to 60 kilometres per hour when passing a tow truck or service vehicle stopped on the roadside with its amber or amber and blue lights flashing while it is rendering assistance to a disabled vehicle, unless the truck is on the opposite side of a divided highway. 

 

The extreme weather conditions at the time of the collision led to treacherous road conditions and many road closures. 

 

"The highways were extremely icy at the time of the accident and all drivers should have adjusted speed due to poor conditions, but it was witnessed that the semi unit that struck our wrecker was not slowing and had just previously passed other trucks," Remple notes in the statement. 

The collision is still under investigation by the Swift Current Rural RCMP. 

 

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[yoBdaBenO]

That's terrible, but thankfully this does not result in another name on the wall.