Logging Truck Crash Knocks Out Telephones

GTE workers struggled to return telephone service to 200 hundred area homes and businesses Wednesday, after a logging truck crashed into a bridge and smashed two phone cables.

Phone service to the businesses north of Interstate 90 and residents of Coeur d’Alene Place housing development was expected to be restored by this morning.

Service went out about 1:30 p.m., when an oversized truck traveling on I-90 swiped the underside of the Government Way bridge. No one was injured during the accident, but the collision knocked the trailer off the cab of the truck.

The wreck also damaged a copper cable and a smaller fiber optic cable. Damage to the copper cable was expected to take most of the night to repair, and was primarily responsible for the telephone outages. , DataTimes