An 18-wheel tractor-trailer clipped a street corner and took out a traffic signal Thursday at College Drive and Main Avenue in Durango.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Thomas Haderthauer of Basin Towing & Repair helps remove a traffic signal that fell on top of a tractor-trailer that clipped the corner of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Kaley Exum, who was sitting on a bench outside Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar at the time of the accident, said she was hit on the head by hanging flowers taken out by the tractor-trailer.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Joby Maez, right, was on a ladder painting the exterior of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar when a tractor-trailer cut the corner sending Maez and his ladder to the pavement, according to Randy Klein, who was working with him at the time. "I was still up on the ladder...he was yelling," Klein said. "I guess the guy [driver] didn't hear." A passer by talks to Maez before he was taken to the hospital.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Firefighter Nate Baier with the Durango Fire & Rescue Authority helps secure a traffic signal that came to rest on top of a tractor-trailer in front of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar on Thursday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Jean-Pierre Bleger, top, owner of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar, and employees Andres Garcia, middle, and Gilberto Hochoa, bottom, watch the efforts to remove the traffic signal.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Firefighters with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and workers with Basin Towing & Repair pull a traffic signal off a tractor-trailer in front of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar on Thursday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - A tractor-trailer clipped the corner of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar on Thursday afternoon, injuring one employee who was on a ladder applying polyurethane to the outside of the building.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - A tractor-trailer clipped the northwest corner of Main Avenue and College Drive on Thursday afternoon, injuring an employee of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Patrons of the Balcony Bar and Grill watch the efforts of the Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and Basin Towing & Repair to pull a traffic signal off a tractor-trailer in front of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar on Thursday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Passers-by on East College Drive watch as firefighters with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and workers with Basin Towing & Repair pull a traffic signal off a tractor-trailer in front of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar on Thursday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald - Jean-Pierre Bleger, owner of Jean-Pierre ìLe Cafe Chicî & Wine Bar, surveys the damage to his restaurant on Thursday afternoon at the corner of College Drive and Main Avenue.
