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This is getting to be a little freaky, but this is the second accident that happened right in front of me. Luckily, this happened just before I got there, otherwise, I would have seen an SUV fall right in front of me from the interstate overpass.

That would have been a bummer.

Man injured when SUV rolls off Interstate 89 in Colchester

Published: Tuesday, January 2, 2007
COLCHESTER - One man has been injured in a dramatic one-car accident at the intersection of Interstate 89 and U.S. 7 at exit 16 in Colchester, according to Free Press staff writer John Briggs, who was at the scene, and Vermont State Police.

David A. Pelkey, 30, had been driving a green SUV southbound on I-89 at about 1 p.m., when his vehicle veered off into the center median, struck a concrete drainage abutment and catapulted over the overpass, on to U.S. 7, said Briggs, who spoke to Williston State Police.

Williston State Trooper Greg Campbell said Pelkey was conscious and alert when he was removed from his vehicle and transported to Fletcher Allen Health Care.

Briggs said Pelkey's SUV, which had been traveling at about 70 mph at the time of the accident, came to a rest on its side near a curb on U.S. 7. Its roof was ripped off. A shoe and a case of unopened grape juice were lying in the vehicle.

Northbound and southbound traffic on U.S. 7 was tied up for more than an hour because of the accident.

Police and fire crews, including rescue vehicles from Winooski, Colchester and Mallets Bay responded to the scene. Northbound traffic was backed up about a mile, to downtown Winooski.

Trooper Campbell said the cause of the accident is still unclear. Police said there were no skid marks on the Interstate and no sign that there was another vehicle involved in the crash.