18-wheeler accident slows morning traffic

Traffic was slowed on the morning of March 8, when a tractor-trailer rig attempted a turnaround at the intersection of Linda Drive and Watson Boulevard, in front of McDonald’s.

Forty-five year old Rodney Salter, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was driving the 2007 Peterbuilt truck with trailer, and had entered Watson Boulevard, traveling west, and was attempting to turn south on Linda Drive from the right hand lane.

Charles Ake, a 79 yearold Hughes Springs native, was driving a 1999 Ford westbound on Watson in the left-hand lane when he came up beside Salter as Salter turned from the right lane, which caused the crash. Sergeant Corey Parr investigated the crash, and issued Salter a citation for turning from the wrong lane. There were no injuries in the crash.