McKee truck tumps over

Gentry Mayor Kevin Johnston examined fresh signs of beaver activity on the bank of a pond on the site of a proposed pond in Gentry. Johnston toured the site Thursday, along with an official from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Gentry Mayor Kevin Johnston examined fresh signs of beaver activity on the bank of a pond on the site of a proposed pond in Gentry. Johnston toured the site Thursday, along with an official from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

— A McKee Foods Corp. semi-truck and trailer turned over along Arkansas Highway 102 north of Decatur around 10 a.m., Monday.

The driver, Robert Bush, and a passenger sustained minor injuries in the accident, according to Arkansas State Trooper Mike Morgan. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident.

Morgan said Bush was driving north when thetrailer’s wheels ran off the edge of the road and got caught in the soft soil, pulling the rig into thedeep ditch alongside the road.

On Monday afternoon, McKee employees unloaded the damaged semitruck. They put boxes of Little Debbie snacks onto another truck. Thewrecked truck left McKee plant in Gentry a few minutes before the accident, Morgan said.

Bush was cited for failure to maintain control of the vehicle, the state trooper said.

News, Pages 2 on 02/23/2011