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Saturday, September 23, 2017

ICYMI: Just a few more pictures of the rig/beam incident in Wellsville

I truly appreciate the WRN News Trackers. When news breaks, readers are there...on the spot. Such was the case this week when a (pretty damn heavy) concrete beam tumbled off a big rig. No one was injured but State Route 417 on the west side of Wellsville was shut down for hours. I was "trapped" behind a microphone doing news for radio stations in other states and couldn't just rush to the scene (a mile away)! (Those are the moments that crush me).
This massive beam, headed to a bridge site in PA, had to literally be cut up into pieces right on the highway. The company involved has a pretty solid record. As one person said, this was just "a really bad day."
Here are a few more on-scene pictures from News Tracker  Greg Day, who gave us these pics: