{"id":120752,"date":"2025-09-05T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:05:10","slug":"excavator-on-trailer-hits-whitemud-drive-overpass-again-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120752\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavator on trailer hits Whitemud Drive overpass \u2014 again &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>In a case of deja vu, the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/whitemud-drive-overpass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitemud Drive overpass<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/anthony-henday-drive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Henday Drive<\/a> has been hit once again by an excavator being hauled by a tractor trailer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It happened Thursday afternoon on the east side of Edmonton in Strathcona County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect delays in your afternoon commute as a vehicle loaded with an excavator has hit the Whitemud overpass on the Anthony Henday northbound. Emergency services are on scene directing traffic,\u201d the county shared on social media just before 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP said the semi-truck carrying an excavator was northbound on Anthony Henday Drive when it hit the overpass.<\/p>\n<p>While RCMP said the Whitemud is unaffected, right lane northbound on the Henday is not passable and drivers should expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just over two years after a near-identical scenario shut down the busy interchange.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAn excavator on a semi trailer collided with overpass bridge deck of Whitemud Drive at Anthony Henday Drive in southeast Edmonton on Friday, June 16, 2023.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In June 2023, a semi hauling an excavator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9773939\/whitemud-drive-anthony-henday-drive-semi-collision-june-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">slammed into the underside of the overpass<\/a>, but on the side on\/off ramp road from the Whitemud, not the main freeway as was the case on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11391128\/saskatchewan-rcmp-richmound-investigation\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757037909_260_Didulo.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSelf-proclaimed \u2018Queen of Canada,\u2019 Romana Didulo, arrested by RCMP\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11392536\/manitoba-rcmp-hollow-water-incident\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757037910_576_Image-2025-09-04T123126.033.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2 dead, including suspect, and multiple injuries after stabbing incident in Manitoba\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver was heading north, attempting to exit the Henday at the Whitemud ramp, when the semi hit the overpass, causing extensive damage.<\/p>\n<p>That excavator hit several girders, breaking away concrete and exposing rebar. It led to road closures that caused major traffic backups, particularly during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old man who was driving the semi was charged with five offences under the Traffic Safety Act, the Highway Development and Protection Act and the Cargo Securement Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The charges against the man, whose name was not released, included having a heavy vehicle not secured against moving, operating an over-dimensional vehicle on a highway contrary to the permit and interfering with or damaging a highway.<\/p>\n<p>Repairing the 2023 damage cost $2.3 million and work wasn\u2019t complete until this year.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size In a case of deja vu, the Whitemud Drive overpass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38129,49,48,44,67132,1890,67133,67131],"class_list":{"0":"post-120752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-anthony-henday-drive","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-strathcona-county","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-whitemud-drive","15":"tag-whitemud-drive-overpass"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}