With all the oilfield traffic in Gonzales County, it should come as no surprise that driver mishaps should occur on a frequent basis, if not a daily basis.
When motorists were held in gridlock while traveling south of Gonzales last week on U.S. Highway 183, they soon discovered they would have to find a new way to get where they needed to go. Without a doubt, this was a great inconvenience to all of them.
Traffic was backed up more than 15 miles last Friday afternoon after an 18-wheeler ran off the road near Hochheim.
According to a report from DPS officer Matthew Southall, at 1:07 p.m., a 2007 Freightliner driven by Wallace Witham, 51, of China Grove, was headed south on 183 and tried to make a left turn onto state Highway 111 when it overturned onto the passenger side, sliding off the roadway and onto the median.
The accident caused the tanks the trucker was carrying to spill oil across the road, and police subsequently blocked off 183 for the next several hours. The resulting bottleneck extended as far north as Circle G Truck Stop at state Highway 97, just a mile south of Gonzales.
Perturbed drivers were forced to either wait in the makeshift parking lot, or turn around and seek an alternate route to their destinations until the mess was finally cleaned up, which DPS reported was around 4:30 p.m.
The Texas Department of Transportation, which is shepherding a major overhaul of Highway 183 from south of Gonzales to the DeWitt County line, said it has no contingency plan in the event of another accident that may block the highway.
So, what do we do if it happens again?
Be sure you have a good book to read in your car – you’ll be stranded there for quite a while.
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source: The Gonzales Inquirer (Ford, 1/27)
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