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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lauren FitzPatrick

Grieving parents warn: Packed snow at side of elevated roads can be deadly

Christopher Weber as he opened birthday presents. He was killed in 2016 on his morning commute to his new job when his pickup truck was vaulted up and over a snow-packed barrier on the side of the towering Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee. (Provided)

With another snowy winter driving season here, the grieving parents of a young man killed when his truck flew off a snow-plowed bridge want drivers to realize they could face the same danger.

“I don’t want to see other people be injured or killed,” Craig Weber says of his son’s accident and other crashes the past few years in Chicago, Milwaukee and other wintry locales in which drivers slid up against snow that had been pushed by plows against highway barriers and were vaulted off elevated roads.

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