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Cal Trans Worker Dodges Tree Falling On Truck

Posted: Feb. 21, 2017 4:20 PM PST

A close call for a Cal Trans road crew worker. Highway Patrol Officer Greg Tassone says 46-year-old Joseph Vaars of Grass Valley was driving an agency utility pickup about 2am Tuesday on Highway 49 near Tyler Foote Road in the North San Juan area…

click to listen to Officer Tassone

So, Tassone says, Vaars leaned to the right front passenger side, because the tree was falling from the left. The tree crushed most of the cab, leaving part of the passenger side. The pickup continued about another 100 feet before coming to a halt, with Vaars getting out of the passenger side and escaping major injuries…

click to listen to Officer Tassone

Tassone says Vaars was treated and released. Highway 49 was closed for about an hour for the tree to be removed.

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