DECATUR — 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