An unlicensed truck driver slammed into a bridge on Tuesday.
According to police, Ishad Knight, 29, of Miami, Florida, was driving a truck laden with liquefied margarine when he took no notice of the numerous warning signs and hit the overpass at the Connecticut state line with New York. His truck then caught on fire, and hundreds of gallons of margarine were spilled all over the roadway, but he was not injured.
Knight was driving on I-287 in Westchester when his Google map program told him to turn onto the Hutchinson Parkway north. It appears that he was using his cell phone to navigate instead of using a commercial grade GPS and hence was distracted.
Police went on to say that the accident was one of the most difficult to clear that they can remember due to the fire and the resultant debris. Normally a truck can be moved quickly but in this case the northbound Merritt was shut through the evening hours.
Westchester County Police issued four tickets after the crash on Tuesday morning, and they also plan to bill the trucking company for the cost of police overtime. Knight had an invalid Florida license, and was also ticked for disobeying warning signs, for driving a truck on the parkway, which is only for passenger vehicles and for driving a vehicle too tall for the parkway.
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