{"id":833795,"date":"2026-07-29T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:14:10","slug":"trucker-charged-for-getting-stuck-in-hairpin-turn-in-caledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833795\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucker charged for getting stuck in hairpin turn in Caledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>A commercial truck driver is facing charges after his massive motor vehicle \u201cbecame wedged\u201d on a scenic road in Caledon.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 65-year-old Mississauga man, was attempting to make a \u201ctight hairpin turn\u201d on Forks of the Credit Road on Friday, when the truck and trailer became wedged into the guardrail, Caledon OPP said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The area has signs indicating that it is a no heavy truck route.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Commercial truck stuck on Forks of the Credit Road in Caledon.\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Forks3.jpg\"  height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\"\/> Wedged in. Photo by OPP Caledon Detachment<\/p>\n<p>The scenic roadway, which runs between Mississauga Rd. and Hurontario St., was closed for more than two hours as crews worked to safely remove the truck and trailer, according to the OPP.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who has not been identified, has been charged with disobeying a sign and interfering with traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaledon OPP would like to remind commercial motor vehicle drivers that there are many route restrictions in Caledon that exist to keep them, their trucks and the roads safe,\u201d the detachment said. \u201cIf the GPS says yes, but the sign says no \u2014 TRUST THE SIGN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article content A commercial truck driver is facing charges after his massive motor vehicle \u201cbecame wedged\u201d on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-833795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833795","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=833795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}