THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 28, 1995 TAG: 9507280487
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
DATELINE: GRANDY LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
A tractor-trailer carrying a modular home was hauling more than a wide load for a brief time Thursday morning.
The top of the mobile house, traveling south on U.S. 158 in Currituck County, snagged an overhead highway sign around 11:30 a.m., pulling along electric wires and eventually tearing down a utility pole.
No one was injured, and local authorities mobilized to redirect traffic and keep cars on the heavily traveled highway moving.
``We don't know who did it at this point,'' said State Highway Patrolman Mike Miller.
The driver apparently continued on after hitting a rectangular left-turn sign 17 feet high, which was held by a guide wire. The wire was attached to another wire and an electric pole, which fell near Goose Creek Golf & Country Club.
``Of course, when an incident happens like that, you don't know what's hot, what's not hot,'' said Stanley Griggs, fire chief for the Lower Currituck Volunteer Fire Department.
North Carolina Power employees quickly untangled the dead lines and restored the pole, Griggs said.
Most manufactured and modular homes being transported on trailer beds are shorter than the state overhead regulatory signs, but Miller said a similar incident occurred four or five years ago in Powells Point. by CNB