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Friday, April 30, 2010

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Trash truck hits work vehicle

Times Herald photos by MARK R. RUMMEL

ANOTHER ACCIDENT: A St. Clair County Road Commission signal truck sits on the side of Interstate 69 as a Canadian trash hauler burns Thursday morning after witnesses said
the trash truck failed to merge lanes and struck the county truck near Riley Center Road in Riley Township.

Man in serious condition; accident third this year involving Canadian hauler
By LIZ SHEPARD
Times Herald

RILEY TWP. Richard

Trudo was enjoying a quiet
morning in the woods turkey hunting, when he felt
the ground shake.
It was like a bomb,
unbelievable, Trudo of
Riley Township said.

The noise was a Canadian trash truck colliding with a St. Clair County
Road Commission truck on
westbound Interstate 69
near Riley Center Road
about 8 a.m. Thursday.
The crash left both
trucks mangled, a county
employee injured and a
portion of westbound and

ENGULFED: Emmett and Mussey township firefighters

spray down what is left of the truck cab of a Canadian
trash hauler Thursday morning, which caught fire after
striking a St. Clair County Road Commission signal truck.

eastbound I-69 closed

from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Kirk Weston, managing
director of the road commission, said the county
employee, Rick Rowe, was
flown to St. Marys Hospital in Saginaw, where he is
expected to remain for a
few days. He was in serious
condition Thursday after-

noon, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The driver of the trash
truck identified only as
a 28-year-old man from
Brampton, Ontario
was arrested after being
checked at a local hospital.
He is expected to be
charged with causing
injury to a worker in a

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Times Herald

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By MELISSA WAWZYSKO, Times Herald

LOADING IT UP: Two women who did not give their names
are seen Thursday at the rear of a pickup loaded with items
that appear to have been removed from a home as they
stand in a driveway at the southeast corner of 12th Avenue
and Mansfield Street in the area where homes are destined
for demolition. One woman said they had been invited in.

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See ACCIDENT, 2A 

Fry vendor plans

to rally Saturday
for parkway spot

MDOT, police watchful near site of

future bridge plaza construction

what they want to, she said.

When homes are vacated,
MDOT tries to secure the
property by boarding them
up. But, she said, that doesnt
always work. She didnt have
an exact number of how many
homes have been vandalized

the work zone. The county

truck hit was the second
in a four-vehicle convoy
doing patching work on
the interstate. Rowes vehicle was equipped with an
arrow indicating motorists
needed to merge into the
left lane.

MANGLED: A St. Clair County Road Commission signal truck sits on the side of Interstate 69 on Thursday morning
after a Canadian trash hauler struck the county truck near the Riley Center Road exit in Riley Township.

Officials: Theft
common at
vacated homes

The Port Huron police and

the Michigan Department
of Transportation are on
the lookout for people vandalizing and stealing items
from homes vacated for the
Blue Water Bridge Plaza
expansion.
Pamela Evans, acquisition
project manager for the plaza
expansion, said people have
striped valuables such as
doors, metal and copper
from many of the homes.
They kind of go in and take

work zone a misdemeanor punishable by up

to one year in jail and
reckless driving. Fines are
doubled for citations in
construction zones, even
temporary ones.
Weston said witnesses
reported the garbage truck
was traveling much faster
the 45 mph speed limit in

or stolen from but said it happens pretty often.

It is certainly something
weve had to deal with,
Evans said.
At about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, two women seemed to
be taking items from a home

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at Mansfield Street and 12th

Avenue a vacant home
with boards over the windows and doors.
One woman was draining a
water heater in the driveway

See THEFT, 2A 

DEATHS, 4B
James Edward Dudley, 42
Steven M. Gorham, 56
Bernice A. Johnson, 95
Eva Villa (Chapman)
Kitchen, 103

The owner of a Port Huron

french fry truck who was
asked to move to a different
part of the Thomas Edison
Parkway is planning a rally
Saturday along the St. Clair
River.
Mike McCauley, owner of
Freighter Fries, said he will
gather with supporters from
1 to 3 p.m. at the spot where
his fry wagon opened last
summer just south of the
Blue Water Bridge next to a
parking lot. He plans to collect signatures from people who support him staying there instead of moving
north of the bridge.
My goal is to get that spot
Sharon M. Lonsby
Ralph Moldenhauer, Jr.
John P. Olshove Jr., 70
Mariann Opalka, 90
Calvin C. Preston, 82
Harriett M. Turner, 95

back again,
M c C a u l e y,
42, of Port
Huron Township said.
City Manager Bruce
B r o w n
informed
Mike
McCauley
McCauley last week he
must move.
Brown said the city received
complaints about the location of the fry truck, which
has lights on top of it similar
to those of a carnival vendor.
The people who complained argued the parkway
should look like a pristine
park, not a commercial area,

See VENDOR, 2A 

COMING SUNDAY

Well plot out the

countys best spots to
take a day off in LIFE