CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – A Stockton man and his son escaped injury on Thursday morning after the semi truck in which they were traveling overturned on Highway 20.
The California Highway Patrol said the crash involving the 1997 Peterbilt tractor-trailer occurred at 5:50 a.m. west of Walker Ridge Road.
Truck driver Benito Guerrero, 45, was heading westbound in the semi, pulling a two-axle flatbed trailer loaded with PVC pipe, with his 11-year-old son as his passenger, the CHP said.
For reasons that investigators have yet to determine, as Guerrero was driving through a lefthand curve the trailer overturned. That, in turn, caused the tractor-trailer to overturn, according to the CHP.
The CHP said the overturned Peterbilt and its spilled load of PVC pipe blocked both lanes of Highway 20, closing the highway down for approximately four hours.
Both Guerrero and his son were wearing their seat belts, the CHP said.
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