Appreciate your snowplow drivers. They allow you to get where you want to go: namely, to shred pow. But life ain’t always easy for these road warriors. The snowplow driver above was sent careening over a 300-foot cliff after crossing two lanes of traffic in Utah’s Spanish Fork Canyon south of Park City near Provo. The plow was clipped by a passing semi. “A semi truck decided to pass him on the right-hand side. That truck clipped the plow, and sent the plow across oncoming traffic,” Carlos Braceras, executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation, told the Salt Lake Tribune. The driver of the plow, Terry Jacobson, who has been clearing roads in Utah for 23 years, was taken to the hospital where he remained with “non-life threatening injuries.”
What’s the lesson here? Namely give snowplows (and semis) a wide berth and be careful out there during this, an epic winter.
