Semi crashes into Lucerne embankment
- Elizabeth Larson
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LUCERNE, Calif. – A semi driver escaped injury on Sunday when his truck hit an embankment along Highway 20.
The crash occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Oakcrest Drive and Frontage Road in Lucerne, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP Officer Jeremy Jensen told Lake County News that the driver of the semi, which was heading westbound, said he had moved to the right to avoid cars coming toward him as he was going around a curve.
The truck hit a soft shoulder and the semi hit the rocky embankment, he said.
A witness report on the CHP’s online incident log also reported that the driver was taking the curve too quickly.
The driver was uninjured, according to Jensen.
Jensen did not have information on the truck’s cargo.
The semi sat against the embankment with cones set up in the roadway to help guide traffic around it while the CHP waited for a heavy tow truck to arrive later in the afternoon to help remove it.
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