The State - News from April 25, 1989

A San Diego-bound truck with a 16-foot-high load nicked a construction platform only 14 feet above a San Jose-area freeway, sending a huge I-beam crashing down on Interstate 280, where the debris was hit by three cars. “The bridge was lower than my load was tall,” said truck driver Larry Evans, who works for B. D. Trucking of Ripon. The California Highway Patrol said four people were hospitalized with minor injuries after the cars hit the debris, causing a closure of the busy freeway’s southbound lanes for more than an hour and backing up traffic for miles.