A borough-owned sander lies overturned alongside the road to Petersburg's dump on December 1, 2024. The vehicle pushed another truck down the hill before rolling off the road.
A Petersburg borough sanding truck slid into another vehicle on an icy hill and then rolled into the muskeg on December 1. The truck was going up a hill to the local dump at around 4:30 p.m. Dave Berg is a spokesperson for the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department. He said the sand that the truck had just put down was no match for the steep, slick road.
"He was heading up the hill," he said. "There was another vehicle following him, and the sander stopped, [it] basically was not getting any traction. It couldn't go any further, and the vehicle behind him stopped. The sander started to slip back...
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