PHOTO - A Goshen Fire District tender truck wound up on its side in a ditch Thursday morning on Hampton Road near Highway 99, with two firefighters on board.
Both firefighters were wearing seatbelts. No injuries were reported. The crash occurred just before 8:30 a.m. Beth Sprague, the administrative assistant to the Goshen fire chief, said the truck was going west on Hampton Road with a certified tender operator and a trainee on board at about 25 mph. The two were out on a training drive when an oncoming vehicle’s extended side mirrors encroached into the tender truck’s lane, Sprague said. As the tender truck moved off the road to make room for the oncoming vehicle, the tender’s tires struck soft dirt, she said, and the tender then slid into the ditch, tipping over onto its passenger side just as the truck came to a stop.