OFF ROAD PLOWING
Driver uninjured as snowplow ends up in ditch
Snowplow goes off the road in Washabuck.
A snowplow driver escaped without injuries after his vehicle went into a ditch in Washabuck.
The accident happened around 10 a.m. on Saturday after the snowplow, belonging to the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, hit a patch of loose asphalt on Washabuck Road in Victoria County, causing the heavy machine to cross the yellow line, landing in the ditch.
“(The plow) was on the road (dealing with the) snowfall from Friday night and snow was still on the road at the time,” said Marla MacInnis, spokesperson for the department of transportation. Although roads were snow covered, it wasn’t snowing at the time of the incident.
The accident caused minor damage to the plow, which was removed from the ditch Tuesday morning.
The driver was the lone occupant of the snowplow and didn’t seek medical attention.
“It’s not something I hear about too often,” said MacInnis when asked if snowplows often go into ditches. This isn’t the first accident involving a snowplow in the province this year.
In January, an 82-year-old woman from Belleville, Argyle County, died after her car collided with a snowplow on Highway 3 near the Yarmouth airport in Yarmouth County.
The snowplow driver was not injured in that incident.