NORTH COAST, Calif. – A big rig carrying drilling equipment up Geysers Road toward Cobb Mountain overturned on Monday morning, blocking the roadway for several hours.
The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in the 13000 block of Geysers Road, on the Sonoma County side near Cloverdale, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP said the driver was uninjured in the wreck, which completely blocked the roadway.
Officer John Float of the CHP’s Santa Rosa Area office said the 35-ton International truck was carrying drilling equipment up the hill. Reports from the scene said the truck was loaded with pipes and augers.
Float didn’t have information about where the equipment was headed.
Bottle Rock Power Plant said the equipment wasn’t headed there; Lake County News was unable to reach the Northern California Power Agency or Calpine to see if their geothermal plants on Cobb Mountain had been the destination for the equipment.
Float said that tow trucks arrived on the scene at 2:30 p.m. to remove the truck.
“The road is closed,” Float said shortly before 3 p.m.
He said the Sonoma County Road Department was providing traffic control in the area.
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