CONWAY — A loaded cement truck fell into a field of hay after catching the lip of the Bardwell’s Ferry Road when heading north to work on a job up the road Monday morning.
The driver of the truck for Construction Services, a cement company based out of Wilbraham, was not injured, despite the truck falling on its side into a ditch.
Around 10:15 a.m., Conway police received reports of the incident. Both local and state police responded to the scene. There was no early indication of gas or cement leakage, police said.
“We’re very, very lucky,” Conway Police officer Christina Conklin said. “He was traveling north (and the) tire caught the edge there. He’s got a full load in there and so it over shifted and it took it that way. Truly an accident.”
No citations were given to the driver.
The rest of the Construction Services team was headed to work on a job less than a mile up the road.
The company is pouring to make bases for the poles to a new power line, local resident Gary Totman said.
Construction Service employees at the scene declined to comment.
He described the incident as what he originally thought was a loud sound coming from something falling off a truck.
Totman lives up the road and was talking to William Graves, who owns the property onto which the cement truck fell.
“We heard this crashing kind of sound as though he lost something out of the pickup,” Totman said.
They then saw the pickup turn around to where the sound came from.
“We were like, ‘OK, he’s going to pick up what fell out.’ We didn’t know any different,” Totman said. “Bill comes up and says, that wasn’t something in the pickup, that was a cement truck that rolled over into the pasture.”
Around noon a truck company came to lift the truck out of the ditch and onto the road. The goal is for the truck to be able to drive on its own, provided there are no fuel or other major issues.