Close call for Caltrans worker after Highway 1 landslide in Mendocino County

A landslide nearly pushed a roads worker over the edge of the highway Friday.|
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO - A Caltrans worker dispatched to help clean up a mudslide that shut a portion of Highway 1 in Mendocino County escaped injury early Friday when a landslide nearly toppled his dump truck.

Crews were responding to an initial slide around 3 a.m. north of Westport when a second slide came down, nearly pushing the dump truck over the edge of the highway, Caltrans public information officer Phil Frisbie Jr. said.

The truck hit a guardrail - stopping its fall - and landed at a 45-degree angle.

The road was be closed indefinitely as state geologists evaluate how to clean up the slide.

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