
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 24, 1994                   TAG: 9403240063
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

FOOD TRUCK WRECKS; CARGO GOES TO SHARE

Some of several tons of food salvaged from a tractor-trailer wreck early Tuesday has been donated to SHARE Virginia, a cooperative food bank.

Frozen peas, corn and chocolate mints littered a roadway after a Pennsylvania man lost control of his rig at the 89-mile marker of Interstate 81 about 4 a.m., state police said.

Richard G. Harris, 43, of Shoemakersville, Pa., told police he was cleaning his glasses when his tractor-trailer veered off into the median, then struck a guardrail and a bridge railing.

Police said the tractor stayed on the bridge and overturned and the trailer went over the bridge and fell to pieces.

Harris, who was not injured, was charged with reckless driving.

Harris owned the rig and was carrying the food for Dutchland Refrigerated Transport Inc. of Myerstown, Pa.

Joe Morgan, Pulaski County administrator, said about four pallets of food were salvaged and donated to the SHARE program. Damaged, thawed or opened bags were taken to the landfill, he said.

by CNB