Car-pivot collision blocks weekday flow on Highway 14

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pivot
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No injuries reported in accident

  • This vehicle hit a pivot and went over the curb, causing damage to the left rear door panels. Police Chief Paul Graham stated that the driver caused the accident while pulling out underneath the pivot.
    This vehicle hit a pivot and went over the curb, causing damage to the left rear door panels. Police Chief Paul Graham stated that the driver caused the accident while pulling out underneath the pivot.

    A driver collided with the back of a pivot on Highway 14, or 16th Street, near the Aurora Mall on Friday afternoon, with the overturned pivot blocking traffic for nearly an hour, according to Aurora Police Chief Paul Graham. 
    The pivot was transported via pickup truck, when a car’s driver moved her vehicle underneath the farming equipment as she was pulling out of the parking lot and turned to the left. The car hit the back-end of the pivot, causing the pivot to land on its side and the vehicle to go off the road.
    “(The car) left the parking lot, drove out underneath the pivot, and the back-end of the pivot struck her, causing the accident,” Graham elaborated. “Okay, so she, by her driving out, went underneath the pivot and so she caused the accident by the rear of the pivot hitting the car.”

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