Richmond, VA Driver Causes Major Accident Interstate 85 Back Open After Accident In Anderson County

Rob Landreth
Published: August 9, 2009

For the second time in two days, an accident on Interstate 85 in Anderson County caused a massive traffic jam.

The accident happened at 1:41 Sunday afternoon at mile marker 6 in the northbound lane of Interstate 85 in Andersson County. Lance Cpl. Bryan McDougald of the South Carolina Highway Patrol says that a 2004 Ford Explorer driven by 27-year old Scarlet Brickhouse, of Virginia, was carrying a trailer with motorcycles on it. McDougald says that the trailer became loose and caused Brickhouse to loose control of the Explorer. The Explorer then went off a bridge and fell about 50 feet down the embankment and into a shallow creek.

Brickhouse and her passenger, Kevin McKeithan, extricated from the vehicle and airlifted to Greenville Memorial Hospital with serious injuries. The accident caused a seven mile backup into Georgia and the interstate to be shut down for nearly three hours.

3 People Hurt In I-74 Crash In Dearborn Co....LOOSE UTILITY TRAILER

Last Update: 1:18 am

Three people are recovering from injuries after a crash on I-74 in Dearborn County Tuesday afternoon.

Indiana State Police say a trailer broke loose from a truck in the eastbound lanes near the St. Leon exit.

An SUV hit the trailer, injuring three people. All are expected to survive.

So far, police have filed no charges.

On Monday during an afternoon thunderstorm a crash involving three tractor-trailers happened nearby.

Although traffic was detoured for hours while crews cleared that crash scene, no one was hurt.

3 Injured In I-74 Crash Troopers: Trailer Breaks Loose, Slams Into Jeep

3 Injured In I-74 Crash

Troopers: Trailer Breaks Loose, Slams Into Jeep

POSTED: 7:51 pm EDT August 11, 2009
UPDATED: 8:27 pm EDT August 11, 2009

DEARBORN COUNTY, Ind. -- Three people are recovering after a crash along Interstate 74 in Indiana.

The crash happened at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday near the 162 mile marker.

Officers said Larry Beamon, of Delhi, Iowa, was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 truck pulling an empty trailer when the trailer broke loose somehow.

As the trailer spun out in the eastbound lanes, it struck a 1993 Jeep Cherokee driven by Pandora Cook, 31, of New Castle.

Her Jeep blew out a tire, causing it to spin into the media.Cook was taken to Margaret Mary Hospital in Batesville for treatment.

Chelsea Spradlin, 16, of New Castle was also taken to the hospital for her injuries.A second passenger in the Jeep, Jasmine McDonald, 20, of Rushville was flown to University Hospital in Cincinnati for non-life-threatening injuries.Beamon was not injured in the crash.The wreck is still under investigation.

Trailer he was towing began to sway.

WEEKEND POLICE LOG
Monday, August 03, 2009

State police at Rockview

Michael A. Anderson of Cleveland, Wis., was traveling west on I-80 in Snow Shoe Township on Saturday at 12:20 a.m. when the trailer he was towing began to sway. Police said his vehicle then went out of control and off the roadway and into the median where the vehicle flipped over.

Mr. Anderson and one passenger suffered minor injuries, while another passenger escaped injury.

Boat disconnects, hits house

Boat trailer disconnects, hits house

GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP — A boat out of water caused some damage on land Thursday afternoon.

A boat being towed north on Mercury Drive became disconnected from the vehicle that was hauling it at around 4:30 p.m., and the boat and trailer rolled into a house near the intersection of Mercury and Robbins Road, Lt. Mike Brookhouse of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department said.

Only minor damage to both the boat and house was reported, Brookhouse said, and no one was hurt in the incident.

Police Blotter

The U-Haul trailer separated and rolled twice

Socorro County Sheriff's Blotter

July 10

A vehicle pulling a trailer was northbound on Interstate 25 at 11 a.m. when the trailer started swaying, causing the driver to veer off the roadway at mile marker 173. The U-Haul trailer separated and rolled twice, causing heavy damage. No enforcement action was taken.

Horses Trailer Crashes

8/8/2009 - Near Pronghorn.

Horses were on the highway Friday night in Deschutes County after a truck and trailer go into a spin. A Dodge pick-up towing a horse trailer was northbound on Powell Butte Highway about six o'clock Friday night. Around the Pronghorn subdivision, the driver briefly looked away from the road and the truck and trailer went off onto a rough shoulder. She then over corrected, going into a clockwise spin on the highway. The pick-up rolled over onto its top. The trailer landed on its side and there were horses inside.

"Right after the crash the horse were out of the horse trailer they have gotten out of the horse trailer they were running in traffic on Powell Butte Highway," said Lt. Shane Nelson from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office.

Traffic was down to one lane on the highway for about forty-five minutes. The driver was transported to Saint Charles with minor injuries, the passenger wasn't hurt, neither were the horses. They were taken away by a friend of the driver.