Damaged scrap metal truck shuts down traffic, causes power outage in San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Traffic was shut down in a San Jose neighborhood Thursday after a scrap metal truck with a broken rear axle was liable to rolling over, in keeping with hearth officers.

The San Jose Fire Department mentioned the incident occurred close to South First Street and East Alma Avenue. The semi-truck, carrying 78,000 kilos of metal, didn’t fall over.

The preliminary name concerning the truck got here in at round 9:30 am The driver was making a flip onto East Alma Ave. when he bumped into hassle.

There aren’t any accidents associated to this incident.

Power shut off

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Authorities mentioned the truck was liable to putting a close-by power pole if it overturned. As a precaution, Pacific Gas & Electric mentioned simply earlier than 1:30 pm they have been requested to close off close by power traces as a precautionary measure.

The preliminary outages left as many as 6,900 prospects with out electrical energy for a lot of the afternoon, officers mentioned. By 4 pm, PG&E mentioned 3,000 of these outages had been restored. The utility mentioned they hoped the outages can be totally restored by 6 pm That aim got here to fruition, however the utility mentioned there was a second outage at round 6 pm that affected 3,770 prospects. That outage was not associated to the semi-truck. Officials mentioned the reason for the second outage was below investigation.

Drew, who didn’t give his final title, was affected by the outage. “Everything went out and just had to keep going out to the…first we had to check if the bathroom died and then it’s the whole house. At this point, once I figured out it was the whole street…I’m just worried that the power’s going to be back on before the food in fridge goes bad,” he mentioned.

A Sacred Heart Community Service constructing in the world was evacuated whereas crews decided learn how to safely raise the truck.

Two tow vans have arrived on the scene to safe the semi-truck, PG&E mentioned.

One hearth official described it as an 80,000 pound truck sitting on two tires.

At 5 pm the semi had been hitched to the tow truck and gave the impression to be able to be towed.

Witness speaks

One man noticed the accident because it occurred.

“And then its axel broke right where it’s at and then a lot of the metal just shot out to the floor and then I went and talked to the driver and he was looking at the broken parts and I said, ‘You best not move it an inch because if this tilts over, it’ll probably kill the power, probably kill the transformers,'” mentioned Ramiro Ramos.

Authorities haven’t mentioned whether or not the semi-truck was concerned in a crash or how the axle was broken. That is below investigation.