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Three injured in Lodi when trucks collide, cement spills

A man taking a new Toyota truck for a test drive Friday pulled out in front of an even bigger truck hauling a cement mixer along Victor Road.

The collision sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries, spread concrete on the roadway and snarled traffic at the well-traveled Guild Avenue intersection.

Abel Grigorica, 47, of Modesto, was driving a silver 2008 Toyota Tundra north along Guild Avenue at 10 a.m. when he reached the Victor Road stop sign, Lodi Police Traffic Services Officer Aleisa Nunes said. Grigorica and other witnesses told police that he stopped and looked both ways, then crossed the road — directly in front of a very large, red Ford truck.

Jackie Weigum, 30, of Lodi, was driving east in the 2000 Ford F-350 truck and said she tried to swerve but couldn't avoid the Toyota. The trucks collided and Weigum's truck spun, whipping the cement mixer it was hauling.

The cement mixer came to rest on its side, facing the opposite direction it was traveling. Concrete which was supposed to be used on walkways at a country home east of Lodi was soon pouring onto the roadway.

Weigum and her 15-month-old daughter were not injured, but her mother-in-law, Glenda Weigum, 55, was hospitalized. Though she was wearing her seat belt, Glenda Weigum just happened to be reaching for her purse on the floorboard when the collision happened, so she had facial bruising and body pain, Nunes said.

Grigorica, whose driver's side was crushed in the crash, went to the hospital with a left knee injury, along with cuts on his arm from broken glass. His passenger, Geweke Toyota salesman Dustin Clark, 24, of Lodi, was hospitalized with right leg pain.

The new Toyota truck, which had a manufacturer's suggested price tag of $34,000, was towed away.

As for the Ford, Jackie Weigum's husband was dismayed to arrive at the scene and see his family members in a crash and his truck's custom paint job ruined.

The colorful paint was a $15,000 job done in Houston, and the chrome used to lift the truck was another $4,000, he said.

The truck, which has appeared in a four-wheeler magazine, had an upgraded motor, 32,000 miles on it and has only belonged to Mike Weigum for a year. It, too, was towed.

A tow truck driver uprighted the cement mixer with the use of a cable and chains. Lodi firefighters helped move the concrete on the pavement until CalTrans crews arrived to clean it up.

Gouges remained in the pavement, marking the spot where the trucks collided.

Everyone was wearing a seat belt and there was no sign of alcohol or drug involvement, Nunes said.

Contact reporter Layla Bohm at layla@lodinews.com.