Truck Accidents 360 Newswire

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – The Cedar Rapids Police Department announced that it was able to positively identify the driver of the semi truck accident that occurred on the I-380 on August 27th at about 1:25 am.  The single-vehicle fatal crash happened just south of the 5-in-1 bridge when the semi truck  struck a guardrail then caught on fire and then the semi’s cab tumbled to the ground under the Interstate at the Third Street on-ramp.

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KCRG reporter, Mark Geary described the accident: “A closer look at the semi’s cab you can see exactly how bad the damage is here. It ended up falling off of the top of the Interstate and smashing into the ground and the damage was so bad firefighters couldn’t tell if the victim inside was male or female. They’re also not sure if there may even possibly be another victim inside because all that’s left is a mangled mess of twisted metal.”

Cedar Rapids Fire Department spokesman, Greg Buelow stated, “The cab is really obliterated at this point … as it hit the ground it was on fire. Fire crews used both water and some foam to extinguish the blaze.” He also said at that time of the truck accident that at least one body was recovered from the semi truck cab and that no further information was known about the victim at that time.

At the time of the accident, there was no word on the driver’s name or who owned the truck, but authorities did know that the driver was hauling a lot of appliances in his truck.

Cedar Rapids Police Department now say that the identity of the driver is Nusret Smajic, 31, of St. Louis who was driving a truck for Dino’s Trucking out of St. Louis. The driver’s identity was confirmed by the trucking company from their records and from the driver’s physical stature and from his wife’s identification his wedding band.

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