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March 31, 2008 - A semi-trailer travelling the wrong way down Edmonton's Yellowhead Trail crashed and toppled off an overpass, bursting into flames.
The semi's male driver was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the fiery crash, said police.
Police said they began receiving reports at about 1 p.m. about the semi around Highway 44, about 30 kilometres west of city limits, causing other vehicles to veer off the road to avoid it, said acting Insp. Todd Laycock.
Then police got calls that the tractor-trailer was going eastbound in the westbound lanes of the busy Yellowhead Trail freeway.
Around 178th Street, the semi hit a guard rail, rolled off the overpass onto railway tracks below and burst into flames.
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