World Steel Tube Provide A commercial truck hauling 30 steel pipes overturned Tuesday morning on a freeway off-ramp curve in Tualatin, closing the ramp for three hours.
Kenneth D. Harvey Jr., 35, of Springfield, Ore., was driving a truck and flatbed trailer loaded with 20-foot long steel pipes at about 8:25 a.m., rounding the left curve of the off-ramp from southbound Interstate 5 to northbound Interstate 5 when the crash occurred.
World Steel Tube Report The truck and trailer overturned onto their right sides, spilling the pipes onto and along the freeway shoulder, according to Lt. Gregg Hastings, spokesman for Oregon State Police. Harvey was not injured and there were no other vehicles involved, Hastings said.
World Steel Tube Report The ramp was closed while crews from Oregon Department of Transportation coordinated cleanup work, assisted by Tualatin Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.
World Steel Tube Report Harvey was cited for failure to drive within a lane. He was driving for George Van Dyke Trucking of Tangent, Ore.