Sand Truck Overturns On Maricopa
A truck carrying a load of sand overturned Saturday morning on Highway 33 at mile marker 23. The driver of the truck was uninjured, and one lane of the two-lane highway was blocked until the truck was uprighted about two hours later. The ownership of the truck, its destination, or cause of the accident were not known at the time of this report. The CHP is investigating the incident.
Photo by Maureen Clark
The road has never been a dependable road for commerce, in spite of the fact that CalTrans has done an admirable job of maintaining it. It has frequently been closed by slides; I remember 2 slides in the last 20 years that each closed the road for over six months, and smaller slides that closed the road anywhere between one and three months. The road can also be closed by snow, and I can recall a snow closure of at least three weeks because local CalTrans personnel and resources were shipped off to deal with more pressing problems elsewhere. A fire anywhere in the National Forest near Highway 33, even miles away, can cause a closure of the entire route between Wheeler Gorge and Ozena Station.
I look to nature to give the road a rest every now and then. Nature out-votes everyone, everytime, and it always will. Even the 8-lane I-5 gets closed at Gorman every time there’s any real snow or ice on the road. Nature always wins.
Hwy 33 is a state highway, primarily for guess what, commerce and long range travel, it is not, nor never was intended to be a local street.
When will the Ojai Valley News follow with a CHP report so that the truth will be known?
SORRY DHARMA: I DON’T WILL NOT BLOW SMOKE UP YOUR SKIRT OR ANYONE ELSES FOR THAT MATTER. YOUR COMMENTS AND BAREFOOT CONTESSA AS WELL ARE WEIRD!!
I think it’s blow smoke out our skirts Burma, you little kozmic bunni!!
The truth will “out” the driver, the truck, the cause, and whether double hoppers should fly to Cuyama and back..
While “anon” et al blow smoke up our skirts..
OH BAREFOOT CONTESSA:
I WAS NOT BEING SPITEFUL!!!!! I WAS STATING A FACT!!! IT DOES NOT SAY WHO THE DRIVER IS AND WE (HE AS WELL HJ SMITH) SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT A CERTAIN PERSON IS THE DRIVER. I WILL SAY THAT THERE ARE TIMES THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN EVEN TO EXCELLENT DRIVERS, WHICH I AM SURE THIS DRIVER IS, BUT YA KNOW CRAP HAPPENS.
HJ Smith DO you know what a King Pin is? It is the piece on the trailer that attaches the trailer to the truck using the fith wheel. There is still alot more truck in front of that and they can extend over 40 feet altogether so with that truck not having a king pin it does not fall into that catagory. Now from looking at the picture it looks like a regular dump truck without a trailer, so it is not a tractor trailer like some of the other posters said. I could be wrong but looking at the picture that is what it looks like to me.
Deniers of the truth persist in the name of greed and self-interest.
Danger lurks on roads where even every meth addict knows, speed kills… Eventually.
don’t be spiteful “ANON”, howard voted runner-up in the Living Treasures of Ojai (CY 2006), and winner of West Coast Business Times’ Donald Trump Visonary award (2007-09).
Highway 33 above Ojai was never intended to accomodate large tractor trailor rigs. I have been run off the road several times by these large trucks while on my bike.
What a sandy mess. Walking on it to clean it would be like walking on ball bearings .
HJ SMITH:
ONE DOES NOT KNOW FOR SURE aka Nielson, IS THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE AND SHOULD WHOEVER WAS DRIVING THERE MUST BE A GOOD REASON FOR THE ACCIDENT.
oh, put a lid on it howie…
The Caltrans Advisory for Maricopa is 30 feet king pin to rear axle. Gravel trucks are 44 feet. Think that’s safe Ms “Time to expose oneself…” aka Nielsen???
Reply to above coment. How many more car accidents are we going to endure before we stop everyone from driving?
How many more of these accidents will our community have to endure before the County and Caltrans realize that Maricopa Highway should never be used for gravel trucking from the Cuyama valley?