High winds * USA - Blow semis off interstate
Four semi-trailers and several cars were blown off Interstate 135 Tuesday evening and several cars had windows blown out
Wichita,KS,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker -23 July 2008: -- Winds strong enough to knock semi-trailers off the road blew through Sedgwick County, Kan... Four semi-trailers and several cars were blown off Interstate 135 Tuesday evening and several cars had windows blown out. Three people suffered minor injuries... Trucker Charles England, of Spokane, Wash., said the wind push his truck off the interstate east of Valley Center. He said so much pea-sized hail was falling that there were white-out conditions along the road... A chain-reaction pileup during a downpour on Interstate 40 in east Arkansas included six big rigs and sent several people to the hospital. It closed down the highway's westbound lanes for several hours, state police said... Except for that accident, in which two tractor-trailers caught on fire, little damage was reported other than downed power lines...
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