Runaway Lettuce Truck Lands in Man's Kitchen
Saturday, January 26, 2008
ST. GEORGE, Utah — A truck carrying boxes of lettuce drifted off an interstate highway in southern Utah and didn't stop until it plowed into a man's kitchen.
The Utah Highway Patrol identified the driver as Ernest King, a 54-year-old Canadian whose body was taken to Salt Lake City for an autopsy.
Investigators believe King fell asleep at the wheel or had a medical problem when he veered Thursday off northbound Interstate-15 eight miles from the Arizona border.
Sgt. Dan Ferguson said King didn't hit the brakes or swerved once when he left the highway, ran over a fence, hit three parked cars and crashed into four units of a housing complex.
David Clark and a friend had just sat down in his kitchen when the truck came crashing through a wall and stopped, Wendy Woolsey told The Spectrum of St. George.
Clark and Woolsey survived with minor injuries.