Photos courtesy St. Albans Fire Department

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — A tractor-trailer driver was amazingly uninjured after the cab of his 18-wheeler went over the side of a bridge on U.S. Route 35 in Mason County early Tuesday morning. He was in the dangling cab for five hours before being successfully rescued.

Point Pleasant Fire Department Chief Jeremy Bryant said they’ve had other wrecks at the bridge that crosses Sixteen Mile Road and those other times the vehicles went completely over the bridge but this time it was just the cab and that presented challenges.

“We tried to use a ladder truck to try and get to him that way, we tried to do it from the other lane and we tried to do it from below but there was no way of getting it there and so we ended up calling a technical rescue team,

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