MACHIASPORT, Maine — June 17, 2014 — A tractor-trailer truck owned by a local trucking firm that was carrying 40,000 pounds of lobster skidded off a mountain road in Canada last week, officials confirmed Monday.
The driver was OK but how much lobster was lost was not clear Monday. A photograph of the crashed truck, posted with a report from CBC News, suggests the truck remained upright as it came to a stop on an embankment by the side of the road in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
The accident occurred around 9:30 a.m. Atlantic Time — 8:30 a.m. in Maine — on June 12, according to Angela Corscadden, spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She said Monday the truck went off the road after it lost its brakes when it was coming down the southern side of Smokey Mountain on Cabot Trail, the road that wraps around the island’s northern peninsula.
Corscadden and an employee with LT Maine Trucking, the Machiasport company that owns the truck, said Monday the lobster on the truck was salvaged after the crash. However, an official with the Neils Harbour, Nova Scotia, fishing cooperative, where the lobster was loaded onto the truck, said some of the cargo was lost.
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