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Crane moves skidloader off Interstate 380
Jeff Raasch
Dec. 16, 2009 8:07 am
UPDATE: Authorities requested a crane after a wreck on Interstate 380 near downtown Cedar Rapids this morning.
A skidloader came off a trailer that was being pulled by a pickup in the northbound lanes of I-380 near the First Street on-ramp around 8:35 a.m. With the skidloader on its side, a Coonrod crane arrived and lifted the skidloader back onto a trailer.
The wreck blocked one lane and traffic stalled behind it for about an hour.
No one was injured in the incident, police said.
A crane lifts a skidloader back onto a trailer in the northbound lanes of Interstate 380 near the First Street SE on-ramp after an accident this morning, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Traffic was slowed for about an hour after the skidloader came off a trailer that was being pulled by a pickup. No one was injured. (Jeff Raasch/The Gazette)