{"id":11053,"date":"2014-02-15T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2014-02-15T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T12:03:41","slug":"almost-heaven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"ALMOST HEAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsandsentinel.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/583424\/I-77-bridge-wreck-sends-two-to-hospital.html?nav=5061\">This <\/a>has to be the definition of a no good very bad day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rush-hour wreck Friday at the Interstate 77 Williamstown-Marietta Bridge involved a lost couch and a tractor-trailer, sent two to the hospital and closed the southbound lanes of the bridge for more than an hour, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5 p.m., an unknown motorist carrying a load of furniture and traveling southbound across the I-77 Williamstown-Marietta Bridge lost control of the load and deposited a couch on the bridge behind the vehicle, said Deputy M.C. Hupp with the Wood County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the unidentified motorist, Tracy West, 41, of Orma, W.Va., and his wife Melissa West, 36, of Orma, W.Va., were test-driving a Dodge Ram pickup from a local dealership, Hupp said.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy West was unable to stop in time to avoid striking the couch, Hupp said. The couch was hit, and ended up beneath the Ram&#8217;s undercarriage, Hupp said. The test-driven Ram was forced to stop in the center of the I-77 Williamstown-Marietta Bridge due to being hung up on the couch, said Hupp.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to stop on the slick bridge surface, a tractor-trailer from Broughtons Dairy then struck the Ram from behind, Hupp said. The tractor-trailer was driven by George Mosser Jr., 54, of Marietta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least the couch wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com\/2012\/09\/west-virginia-hopes-couch-burning-tradition-goes-down-in-flames-with-move-to-big-12.html\/\">on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be the definition of a no good very bad day: A rush-hour wreck Friday at the Interstate 77 Williamstown-Marietta Bridge involved a lost couch and a tractor-trailer, sent two to the hospital and closed the southbound lanes of the bridge for more than an hour, officials said. Around 5 p.m., an unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11054,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}