{"id":1738,"date":"2010-04-13T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:10:01","slug":"tractor-trailer-truck-crashes-into-minnesota-house-injures-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/1738\/tractor-trailer-truck-crashes-into-minnesota-house-injures-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Trailer Truck Crashes into Minnesota House, Injures Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPRING VALLEY, MN – A tractor trailer truck crashed into a Minnesota house early Wednesday morning, on March 31, 2010, leaving the truck driver in serious condition. The truck accident happened south of Rochester, MN, on Highway 63 near Spring Valley in Fillmore County. The accident area is in the southeast section of the state, 227 miles east of Sioux Falls, South Dakota and 140 miles north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<\/p>\n

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Local emergency personnel rushed to the scene of the truck accident and worked to extricate the truck driver from his cab. Firefighters had to open up the top of the truck cab and lift the driver up through the roof.<\/p><\/div>\n

At around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 31, 47 year old truck driver Barry Duncan of Illinois was headed north on Highway 63, hauling a thirty thousand pound cargo load of fireplaces. The truck driver lost control when he reportedly had severe chest pains and passed out behind the wheel of the semi trailer. <\/p>\n

The out of control 18 wheeler truck drove off the highway and traveled on at about 30 MPH, hitting a power pole and just missing the side of a business before smashing into the residential home.<\/p>\n

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The residents of the home, Terry Fetterly and Marilu Flick, were in their second floor bedrooms at the time of the truck accident. Mr. Fetterly was asleep in his room but Ms. Flick was awake and told authorities she could hear the truck coming right before the accident. She described it as a “rumbling noise” that kept getting louder right before the tractor trailer truck came crashing into their home.<\/p>\n

The truck colliding into the house woke Mr. Fetterly, who described the moment as “Kind of like an earthquake.” The house shifted, glass shattered, and items fell from the walls.<\/p>\n

The impact of the truck accident collapsed the second floor and created a huge hole in the side of the house where the 18 wheeler entered the structure. The tractor truck’s cab and the front section of the trailer were stuck in the home, buried under the wreckage of the building.
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