Concrete Truck Overturns on Route 5

A cement mixer overturned on Route 5 near Greenview this morning. The truck, from Scott’s Conctrete was traveling north when the driver swerved to avoid hitting a car turning left in front of him, traveled off the roadway and overturned approximately 20 feet down an embankmdent. Trooper K. Schrage says, “It was quite an ordeal” to get the huge cement mixer uprighted and back on the road. “It took three different tow trucks, and we had to shut the highway down for a brief amount of time,” he says. No other vehicles were involved in the accident, and no one was hurt.