A truck with a rear-end boom that was up when it shouldn’t have been took out several overhead street lights near downtown Denver this morning.
No one was injured in the mishap, but at least four traffic lights on Speer Boulevard north of Colfax Avenue were hammered by the wayward truck at about 8:30 a.m., including the light at Arapahoe Street.
Police caught up with the truck near Larimer Street and pulled over the driver.
Motorcycle officer Dan McNulty said the unusual accident was all part of a day’s work.
“It happens,” McNulty said with a smile.
The driver declined comment except to say he was eager to pull his truck off busy Speer Boulevard “before something else happens.”
Flashing light signals greeted traffic at the Arapahoe intersection where drivers came to a complete stop and yielded before proceeding.
McNulty issued the trucker, who was celebrating his birthday, a careless driving citation. The truck driver or his company, Eco-Pan, Inc., will have to pay for the signal repairs, police said.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
