Tractor trailer removed after January collision with Sorrento, B.C. home | 24CA News

A Shuswap girl is one step nearer to going residence after a tractor trailer that slammed into her home on the finish of January was lastly eliminated.

Hilda Freimuth spent a lot of the day on Wednesday watching crews take away the semi-truck from the facet of her Sorrento, B.C. residence.

The tractor trailer was carrying electronics down the Trans-Canada Highway on the afternoon of Jan. 31 when it left the street and slammed into Freimuth’s hooked up storage.

“I’m getting better but [there’s] still a lot of trauma from that,” Freimuth stated.

After greater than two weeks out of her residence, she’s relieved and blissful the removing goes forward.

Getting the truck out was a prolonged course of. Crews first pulled out the trailer, hoisting it as much as the freeway above the house utilizing a crane mounted on a towing car.

Then heavy gear was used to take away a part of the roof of Freimuth’s residence that the cab was below.

By mid-afternoon, the truck’s cab had additionally been eliminated, liberating Freimuth’s car and bringing her one step nearer to returning residence.

As Freimuth offers with the cleanup, she’s persevering with to push the provincial Ministry of Transportation for a barrier between the houses on her road and the freeway.

“We haven’t heard back from them. Hopefully, soon we’ll hear back from them to see if they could put up a barrier for us because our house and [the] house [next door] are a risk,” Freimuth stated.

Her neighbour says that beforehand there was one other incident the place a car left the freeway on this space, however in that case, the truck didn’t hit any of the houses.

“I absolutely think there should be a barrier; it just doesn’t seem safe at all,” stated neighbour Adela Bergen.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Transportation informed Global News just about the identical factor it stated final week: that it’s “reviewing the safety history of the area and is considering what other safety measures may be required at this location.”

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