One vehicle and 5th wheel rollover backs up traffic on 83N, no injuries

  • A half-ton pickup towing a fifth-wheel trailer lost control and flipped across the Highway 83 N roadway on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Speed was listed as a factor. No injuries were reported. Photo courtesy Menard County Sheriff’s Office.
    A half-ton pickup towing a fifth-wheel trailer lost control and flipped across the Highway 83 N roadway on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Speed was listed as a factor. No injuries were reported. Photo courtesy Menard County Sheriff’s Office.

    On Thursday, March 3, 2022, multiple agencies responded to a one-vehicle accident on Highway 83 North in the early afternoon.

    North of Menard approximately five miles, a southbound half-ton pickup towing a fifth-wheel RV trailer lost control, flipped, and came to a rest upside down across the roadway.

    According a Menard County Sheriff’s deputy on scene, the pickup was too lightweight to safely tow a…