Crash causes traffic delays

A truck was hanging off the side of a bridge Tuesday morning as a collision closed part of the Perimeter Highway.

Winnipeg Police Service officers were sent to the collision on the Perimeter at the Fermor Avenue overpass just after 8 a.m.

A Ford F350 with a trailer was travelling southbound on the Perimeter when the trailer jack-knifed and collided with a Dodge Ram, the WPS said in a Tuesday news release. The F350 crashed into the guardrail on the bridge and dangled off the edge.

Emergency responders from the WPS, RCMP, Springfield Fire and Rescue and Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service safely extracted the driver of the Ford truck. He was taken to hospital as a precaution.

A bridge inspector from Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure determined the bridge was safe to drive on and the Perimeter was reopened to traffic in both directions.