Looking Back 25 Years: January 25, 1996

JANUARY 25, 1996

A semi-tractor trailer accident at the Whitehall I-90 interchange Saturday around noon sent three people to the hospital by ambulance. According to Highway Patrol Officer Nancy Antonioli, “We were very lucky we didn’t have any fatalities.” Driver Carmen Mittleider from Tappen, N.D., apparently fell asleep at the wheel of the empty cattle-hauler westbound on I-90. After drifting off the right side of the road into the triangle of ground between the exit and the interstate, Mittleider over-corrected, crossed both westbound interstate lanes, went airborne over the gua...