As Alcan Residents Worry About Ore Trucks, Two Military Trucks Slide On Icy Roads On The Parks

 Icy Roads Come To Alaska...

And The Truck Crashes Begin  

Military Trucks On Fort Greely Website. 

Parks Highway Closed Near Byers Lake When Military Convoy Trucks Slipped And Collided In The Highway, Troopers Say  

Two military trucks collided on Tuesday, October 31st. The Halloween crash occurred 136 miles from Anchorage, on the Parks Highway south of Cantwell. 

Troopers said the trucks slid on the ice in the road. They got slammed against the guardrails, according to Troopers. The Parks Highway was closed for several hours. 

Only Army vehicles were involved, and there were no civilians in the crash.

The crash has relevance on the northern roads. It occurred while local motorists who live between Tok and Fairbanks are embroiled in a back-and-forth over worries about crashes that might result from a big mining trucking project. 

Ore trucks will soon be moving toward Fairbanks from the eastern highways. There's currently a war of words over 95-foot ore trucks which will be traveling over the Alcan, Richardson and Steese every 15 minutes or so, round the clock for 5 years. They'll truck ore from a Tetlin mine for 250 miles one way -- to a gold mill north of Fairbanks called "Fort Knox." 

Many people have said the ore trucks worry them. They mention accidents, inclement weather -- and conflict with school buses and military convoys, which also use the roads leading to Fairbanks from the east.