How to resolve AdBlock issue? NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – A Hidden Valley Lake man was arrested for driving under the influence this week after he wrecked his semi truck near Cottonwood.
Roger Anthony, 46, also suffered major injuries in the crash, which occurred on Tuesday morning on Interstate 5, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Red Bluff office.
The CHP said that just before 8:30 a.m. Anthony was driving a 2004 Peterbilt tractor trailer northbound on the Bowman Road off-ramp, pulling a tanker trailer loaded with propane and traveling at an undetermined speed, when the semi went off the west roadway edge and overturned.
When officers arrived on scene the odor of propane was apparent and smoke was coming from the cab of the semi, the CHP reported.
Both the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5, as well as Lake California Drive and Bowman Road, were closed at 8:50 a.m. with traffic diverted to nearby roads, the CHP said.
The CHP said that at 10 a.m. the tanker was determined to be safe, no hazardous materials were released and no fire occurred, at which time all of the roadways – with the exception of the northbound I-5 off-ramp to Bowman Road – were reopened.
Anthony was extricated from the semi and flown by air ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Redding, according to the report.
CHP officers later went to the hospital and placed him under arrest for DUI, but released him to the hospital’s care due to his injuries.
The northbound Bowman Road off-ramp wasn’t opened until just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after the propane was offloaded and the overturned semi was removed, the CHP said.
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