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Another truck rolls over on bypass
032013 Hwy 80 Bypass wreck 005
A tractor trailer landed on its side just after the off-ramp from U.S. Highway 80 West onto Veterans Memorial Parkway west of Statesboro on Wednesday afternoon. - photo by JASON WERMERS/staff
An 18-wheeler toppled over Wednesday as the driver tried to take a right turn off U.S. Highway 80 West onto Veterans Memorial Parkway. The turn lane merges into the parkway as a curve, instead of a right-angle turn, and the truck was the fourth to overturn in the same spot, Georgia State Patrol Post Commander Sgt. Brad Mosier said. The driver, Albert Kentish, 43, of Tampa, Fla., took the turn at a higher rate of speed than was safe, resulting in Kentish being charged with driving too fast for conditions, Mosier said.
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