#Milwaukee truck off overpass drivers

Milwaukee County works to “maximize road safety as quickly as possible during winter weather events,” Esch said.ĭuring severe winter weather, drivers are urged to remain at home as much as possible to accommodate clean-up efforts and motorists who must travel, she said. Numerous additional variables also impact winter weather roadway clean-up, she said. “The plan is necessarily flexible and requires the judgment of the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and its employees to react to the length and severity of winter events, forecasted temperatures and road conditions,” Esch said. The accidents have raised questions about snow and ice removal along freeway systems and highlight the dangers of winter weather driving, especially on icy roads and bridges.Ī snow and ice removal plan is in place for all interstates, state trunk highways and county trunk highways throughout Milwaukee County, according to Julie Esch, deputy director of the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation. Police confirmed there was a snowbank on I-55 where the accident occurred, but it wasn’t immediately clear if it was a factor in the crash. Illinois State Police reported that the vehicle was traveling too fast for road conditions along the stretch of I-55, known as the Stevenson Expressway, at the time of the accident, which occurred at about 4 a.m. 12 when two people were killed, and two others injured when the vehicle in which they were riding collided with a concrete wall and plunged more than 40 feet off Interstate 55 in Chicago and crashed onto a street in a neighborhood on the city’s southwest side. The truck swerved into a retaining wall, briefly traveled up a snowbank and crashed to the ground below the bridge. The scary incident conjured up memories of a similar accident in December 2016 that ended in tragedy.Ĭhristopher Weber, 27, of Milwaukee, lost control of the truck he was driving on an ice-covered stretch of the Hoan Bridge along the I-794 overpass. In an interview with Good Morning America, Oliver said from a hospital bed that he lost control of his truck when it encountered snow that had been piled up along the side of the road. The truck motored up a snowbank, jumped over a barrier wall and plummeted to the freeway below. A preliminary investigation of the earlier accident by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department revealed that the pick-up truck driven by Richard Lee Oliver was traveling on the ramp from westbound I-94 to southbound Interstate 41 when Oliver lost control of the vehicle.

Milwaukee truck off overpass