Thursday, August 1, 2024

Tractor-Trailer Loses Brakes on Gordon Mountain, Crashes into Ditch

No injuries were reported after a tractor trailer crash in Gordon Thursday morning.

The crash occurred just before 8:15am, Thursday, when a tractor trailer lost its brakes coming down the Gordon Mountain into Gordon.

The truck came down the hill uncontrollably, but the driver was able to keep the truck straight coming to a stop in a ditch along East Plane Street.

The hill is posted that tractor trailers are prohibited from traveling down but the driver told Butler Township Police that he was following his GPS.  The truck was hauling lumber.

Responding to the scene were the Gordon Fire Company along with the Washington Rescue from Ashland and the Washington Ambulance.  Butler Township and Ashland Police were also on scene.