Trailer overturns outside Oakboro, dumps tractor into road

Published 4:39 pm Thursday, December 24, 2020

A tractor fell off the back of a tractor trailer Christmas Eve afternoon in Oakboro. (Contributed)
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In a car accident the afternoon of Christmas Eve, a tractor overturned off another trailer just outside Oakboro.

According to Police Chief T.J. Smith, a truck with a flatbed trailer carrying a tractor came off East First Street and made a right onto N.C. Highway 205. Due to wet tires while sitting upon a flatbed trailer, the tractor shifted and caused the trailer to turn on its side, dumping the tractor into the highway.

No one was hurt in the incident.

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Charles Curcio has served as the sports editor of the Stanly News & Press since 2008 and has written numerous news and feature stories as well. He was awarded the NCHSAA Tim Stevens Media Representative of the Year and named CNHI Sports Editor of the Year in 2014. He has also won awards from Boone Newspapers, and has won four North Carolina Press Association awards.

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