Truck driver flips off an Interstate 5 overpass near Grants Pass; late-night news roundup

Oregon State Police slapped a semi-truck driver with a careless driving citation after he plowed into a guardrail, flipped off an overpass and landed upside down on an embankment, the Medford Mail Tribune reported Thursday.

The wild crash unfolded when driver Parmjit Singh veered off of Interstate 5 near milepost 58 outside of Grants Pass around 1:10 a.m. The truck, which was full of frozen strawberries, flew off the freeway and rolled on to its top along Northeast Scoville Road.

Miraculously,

Oregon State Police slapped a semi-truck driver with a careless driving citation after he plowed into a guardrail, flipped off an overpass and landed upside down on an embankment, the Medford Mail Tribune reported Thursday.

The wild crash unfolded when driver Parmjit Singh veered off of Interstate 5 near milepost 58 outside of Grants Pass around 1:10 a.m. The truck, which was full of frozen strawberries, flew off the freeway and rolled on to its top along Northeast Scoville Road.

Miraculously, Singh was not seriously injured. He was taken to Three Rivers Medical Center for an evaluation.

Singh received a bill of good health at the hospital. Then he received a citation for careless driving and failure to drive within a lane from the police.

Elsewhere in the Northwest:

A driver blew past a Woodinville, Wash. bicyclist who was riding in the middle of a residential street. The cyclist chased down the driver and attacked him with a machete. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

A stranger tried to enter the home of a Gig Harbor, Wash. man without permission. The homeowner shot him. [Tacoma News Tribune]

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