A two-vehicle accident caused a third vehicle to be flipped upside down and blocked traffic on US 287 in Clarendon late Monday afternoon.
Donley County Deputy Sonny Morasco said Brian Frasier of Tennessee was driving a 2003 Kenworth tractor-trailer and had pulled out of the Clarendon Outpost parking lot and into the left lane of eastbound US 287.
Morasco said Fraiser was attempt to immediately make a wide turn into the Dairy Queen parking lot, but did not see a 2001 Chevy Avalanche that was passing beside him in the right hand lane.
The Avalanche, driven by Robert Michael McNiece of Arlington, was pulling a trailer with a Jeep on it and was struck in the left rear panel of the Chevrolet.
The pickup and trailer spun counter clockwise, and then the trailer became airborne when it hit the curb. The Avalanche and trailer ended up facing westbound with the Jeep on its top.
Neither McNiece nor his passenger, Geri McNiece, were injured in the accident. Frasier was issued a citation for Changing Lanes When Unsafe.
The wreck was witnessed by emergency personnel from the Associated Ambulance Authority who were eastbound to respond to a one-vehicle accident which happened a few minutes earlier near the east city limits.
Morasco and some of the Clarendon Volunteer Firemen responding to the first accident immediately responded to the second wreck.
Details of the first accident were not available from the Department of Public Safety at press time.
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