(This story is by the staff of the Valley News, in which it first appeared Nov. 7, 2017.)
[H]ARTLAND — Transportation officials say Interstate 91 northbound traffic could remain reduced to one lane in Hartland for “a week or more” after a tractor-trailer struck a bridge guardrail Tuesday morning and came to rest partly over the Ottauquechee River.
Vermont State Police said nobody was injured when the 2008 Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Arcot Smith, 38, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, drove off the east side of the road and struck the guardrail.
“Once contact was made, Smith was unable to steer the truck off the guardrail,” police said. “The vehicle damaged a large section of guardrail on the bridge spanning the Ottauquechee River before coming to rest with the truck partially over the bridge with the trailer remaining in the roadway.”
Police did not say what caused Smith to hit the guardrail. The vehicle, owned by RED Technologies, was totaled, according to authorities. A “small amount” of fuel leaked but was contained by fire officials, police said.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation said the road will be “reduced to a single lane in the area of the crash for an extended period of time while repairs are made to the guardrail.”
