Photo courtesy: Mark Thornberg
PLYMOUTH, Minn. - Seriously, this is getting weird.
For the third time in a week a semi-trailer truck has left a Minnesota highway and ended up sunk through the ice of a lake.
On Friday it happened on I-494 near Rockford Road in Plymouth around 2 p.m. Minnesota State Patrol spokesman Lieutenant Eric Roeske tells KARE 11 the truck was headed westbound when for some reason it left the road.
The semi crashed through the freeway fence and jacknifed, with the trailer on dry land and the cab on the ice.
Traffic on the two westbound lanes of I-494 has slowed to a crawl as emergency responders crowd the shoulder of the freeway.
At this point there is no word about what caused the incident, or when traffic will return to normal.
Earlier this week, another driver lost control on an iced-over Highway 14 near Waseca and jacknifed, sliding off the road and onto the ice of Clear Lake, where it sunk through the ice.
And last week a semi left the westbound lanes of I-94 near Monticello, crossing two lanes of interstate traffic before careening an estimated 1,500 feet out onto a drainage pond. That semi sank in about 8 feet of water, and it took two tow trucks and hours of labor to drag it out.
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