WHEEL FLIES FROM LOG TRUCK - Wrecks On West Fork Near Minnora

(06/14/2002)
A wheel apparently flew off a logging truck as it rounded a sharp turn near Kenneth Keaton's resident on Route 16 near Minnora, causing the loaded vehicle to go out of control and come to rest on its side next to the West Fork River.

The driver of the vehicle escaped uninjured in the Thursday afternoon accident.

Truck comes to rest near river

The wheel went airborne and struck a new steel gate that was just erected by Keaton, bending it. Keaton said another driver destroyed another gate a few weeks ago.

The truck was owned by a logging company near Summersville.

Gate destroyed by tire

Truck lost a wheel, causing accident

Calhoun Sheriff Allen Parsons investigated. Calhoun EMS and the Upper West Fork Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene.