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One dead as tractor trailer full of cattle overturns on I-85
Robin Gardner / rgardner@independenttribune.com
A tow truck waits to assist an overturned tractor trailer that was involved in a one-vehicle accident this morning along Interstate 85 near exit 58. The driver of the tractor trailer died in the incident. A passenger was reported to have only minor injuries.
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Published: October 27, 2009
Updated: 10/27/2009 08:04 am
A tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 85, near exit 58, 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, with two passengers inside, and about three dozen cattle.
The driver, Lloyd Gregory Ward, of Godwin, died in the accident. A passenger Joshua Stedman, was asleep in the cab, received minor injuries, according to police on the scene.
Stedman, was transported to CMC NorthEast.
"The truck ran off to the right; we don't why. We don't know if he fell asleep. It hit the guard rail and overturned," N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. Garrett Barger said.
Some of the cattle remained in the trailer, but most had escaped and were wandering the fields along the Interstate, which posed a hazard to traffic, police said.
Troopers reported 12 of the 33 cattle died.
Some of the cattle had to be euthanized, and some died in the accident.
Experienced local animal controllers, and local cowboys rounded up the cattle.
Troopers said all but one had been rounded up.
Traffic was moving well along the interstate, but the on ramp to northbound I-85 from U.S. 29/601 was closed for most of the afternoon.
Ward, 49, was a father of two teenage children.
Contact reporter Robin L. Gardner:704-789-9140
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