concrete truck tips over

It took four hours to remove a loaded concrete truck that tipped over into a ditch Monday on Stillwater Road. No one was hurt.

Kalispell police Chief Frank Garner said the truck carried about 19,000 pounds of concrete. The driver for LHC Inc. dropped a tire onto the soft shoulder of road and started a series of events that tipped the truck, Garner said. The accident spilled about three yards of material, according to officer Sean McRae.

He said tow-truck workers were stymied by the ditch on the opposite side of the road. It prevented the drivers from positioning their trucks perpendicular to the road to remove the dump truck.

The solution was in LHC's plan to haul in several yards of gravel to fill the ditch. That done, it took two large tow trucks to coax out the truck.

LHC cleaned up the materials that spilled during the accident and all the gravel it imported.