Driver Survives After Mixer Lands on SUV
A 62,000-pound cement truck overturned onto a Nissan Pathfinder in Newport Beach on Wednesday, pinning the SUV driver in his collapsed vehicle for more than an hour, officials said.
Bill Williams, 25, was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana with minor injuries after the 11:30 a.m. accident at Pelican Hills Road North and Newport Coast Drive.
Rescuers removed a door and the roof of Williams’ vehicle to extract him.
“He looked a lot worse than he was,” said Sgt. Rob Morton, a spokesman for the Newport Beach Police Department.
The accident occurred as Williams, of Orange, sat in his vehicle waiting for a traffic light.
As the cement truck turned right from Newport Coast Drive, Morton said, it apparently veered too sharply and overturned, its mixer landing squarely on the driver’s side of the SUV.
The passenger in the SUV, David Ray, 29, of Anaheim walked away unscathed, as did the Robertson’s Ready Mix cement truck driver, Daniel Fisk, 24, of Corona. Newport Coast Drive was shut down in both directions for more than an hour and a half, and Pelican Hills Road North was closed for several hours.
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