A truck driver from Florida escaped injury after the semi he was driving toppled over on Interstate 80 due to high winds. The Iowa State Patrol reports 30-year old Alexandru Coclenci, of Orlando, Fl., was traveling on I-80 eastbound two-miles west of the Avoca exit just before 2-p.m., when a severe weather event…possibly a tornado..blew the 2010 Kenworth semi across the interstate. The rig came to rest in the westbound ditch.

The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by Avoca Fire and Rescue, and deputies with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office.