ST. LOUIS — A salt truck in the city of St. Louis lost control early Monday morning, nearly crashing near a local supermarket.
This happened around 5:30 a.m. on a connector street on Walter Avenue between New Halls Ferry Road and North Broadway.
The truck was not salting the roads at the time of the crash.
Kent Flake, the St. Louis Commissioner of Streets told 5 On Your Side the driver was coming down a hill, lost control on the ice, and spun into some posts right outside of the Elite Supermarket & Grill on North Broadway.
Flake said thankfully the posts were up to prevent the driver from crashing into the building but that it was an extremely close call.
The driver was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported.
Crews eventually were able to pull the truck out from the iced-over street safely.
The roads across St. Louis were icy from freezing rain.