Semi crash on Mapleview Road

At about 8:53 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center received a call of an overturned semi and trailer on Mapleview Road, just north of the T intersection of County Road 40.

Deputies located a 2018 Kenworth semi-truck with a tanker trailer tipped on its passenger side in the west ditch of Mapleview Road. The truck was registered to Krain Transportation out of Freeport. About 55,000 pounds, or 6,400 gallons of milk, were loaded in the tanker trailer, some of which was leaking out the top hatch.

Deputies identified and spoke to the driver Joshua Kulzer, 24 of Melrose. Kulzer said he was driving southbound on Mapleview Road when the tires of the tanker trailer got too close to the shoulder of the road. The tires caught the softer portion of the shoulder and pulled the rest of the truck off the roadway and it eventually over-turned. He was not injured from the crash. 

Albany Fire & Rescue assisted on scene.