A tractor-trailer that blocked traffic on the Deception Pass Bridge between Oak Harbor and Anacortes for six hours has been cleared. The bridge was closed when the tractor-trailer truck ended up dangling off the bridge. The truck went up onto the guardrail shortly before 7 a.m. and had been balancing there, in danger of falling over the side of the bridge and into the water. Authorities didn't immediately try to right the truck because of high winds. Transportation officials declared the bridge structurally sound and were working to repair the damaged guard rail. When the tractor-trailer went over the guardrail, it collided with a small pickup, which came to rest under the cab of the tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer was going south on Highway 20, crossing the bridge about 7 a.m. when it began swaying. Its cab fell on its driver side and slid atop a guardrail in the northbound lane. The small truck then hit and slid underneath it. "When the driver looked out the window, all he could see was water, 180 feet down," Ramsay said. Neither driver was seriously injured in the collision.
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