A pizza delivery driver escaped serious injury when a wall collapsed onto his vehicle in Mt. Washington on Saturday, a public safety spokeswoman said.

Sonya Toler said the driver had just parked on Virginia Avenue about 6:30 p.m., was out of the car and retrieving the food to deliver it when the retaining wall fell onto his car.

He was very fortunate and able to escape the collapse of the wall, Toler said.

However, the man did suffer an injury to his leg and went to a hospital for treatment, she said.

The box of pizza remains crushed on top of the car.

So far, police have not said what caused the collapse.

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Stability will be to the fore as the Dunedin City Council casts a critical eye over more than 4000 of the city's retaining walls.

Over the next six months, contractors will be seen around Dunedin measuring and checking the soundness of about 3000 walls supporting roads or land and property next to a road.

The data, added to that from about 1300 walls in the city's metropolitan area that have already been assessed, will be forwarded to council staff, who will then complete a risk assessment exercise to identify which walls need attention, and when.

Council asset management engineer Geoff Young said the work had not been done before, and would help update the council's records so it could better manage its responsibility to maintain the road network.

''If you haven't measured something, you can't manage it, so we are looking to know what we have got, so we can better manage it.

"If that has a financial implication we need to know what that is, so we can set aside money for it.''

In most cases, the inspection could be carried out from the roadside or footpath, but at times inspectors would need to enter properties to gather the necessary information about the wall.

Some of the walls were privately owned, but the council was keen to record them where they could have an effect on the road.

In cases where a wall was at risk of imminent collapse, a letter would be sent to landowners informing them of the situation.

The council had the power to require property owners to fix retaining walls threatening public property but, in the main, this was an information gathering exercise, Mr Young said.

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Published: Monday, 12/8/2014 - Updated: 6 seconds ago GETTING FREEWAY READY FOR WINTER

BY DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER

When a state contractor made one of the last concrete pours needed to finish a new retaining wall on I-75 near Detroit and Delaware avenues last week, it marked the move toward completion of the last task essential to keeping the freeways reconstruction through downtown Toledo on schedule through the winter.

The projects first phase, which includes rebuilding the two left lanes in each direction, the median wall, and associated drainage, was just 30 percent complete as of Thursday. But the retaining wall on the curve between Detroit and Delaware was the only critical path item remaining on this months schedule, said Theresa Pollick, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman in Bowling Green. It is expected that all of the concrete pours will be done by the end of the month.

Its moving along real well, said Mike Gramza, ODOTs district planning and engineering administrator. Shortly into the spring, we will switch [traffic] over to the inside lanes.

Rebuilding I-75 between Dorr Street and I-475 is among several ODOT projects set to continue in the winter.

Along with the Anthony Wayne Bridge rehabilitation, its among the more disruptive to traffic. Reducing I-75 to two lanes each way through has caused chronic backups since work began in July.

So far we are pleased with the work progress on this and all of the projects on the Interstate system, said Todd Audet, ODOTs district deputy director in Bowling Green. We hope the traveling public will remain vigilant and patient traversing the area as some of the project will continue through the winter.

Work planned for the winter includes demolishing the Oakwood Avenue overpass, which will be replaced; pouring concrete footers for overhead signs; hand pours for median-wall concrete at catch basins, and back-fill for the retaining wall. Ms. Pollick said the latter item could be finished yet this week, but most of the work schedule is weather-dependent.

Completing the downtown I-75 projects current phase on time in the spring, Ms. Pollick said, is vital because it affects the traffic pattern for ODOTs next I-75 project: freeway reconstruction and widening between I-475 and I-280.

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A Redding driver was arrested for DUI early Thursday after crashing his SUV dangerously close to a gas station.

The crash happened just after midnight at the Chevron station at Shasta View Drive and Tarmac Road.

Surveillance video obtained by KRCR News Channel 7 shows the black Cadillac Escalade careen out of control, running one retaining wall and crashing into a second retaining wall.

Police said the driver Brandon Foster, 30, was driving on Shasta View Drive when he lost control.

Witness Jason Lee described the sound of the crash, "And we look over and we hear this like boom, like some train just wrecked and he's just taken the wall out."

Jeffrey Jewett added "He just took the wall out, and he rode like on two wheels all the way. He was like grinding the wall."

A woman and a teenager pulled Foster out of the car. He was taken to the hospital and arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. Police said they found drug paraphernalia inside the Escalade.

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The Perry Township supervisors adopted a final budget Tuesday night for 2015 that held the line on real estate taxes for the 15th consecutive year and agreed to borrow almost $500,000 for a retaining wall project on River Road.

Chairman A.J. Boni said the final spending plan includes $666,706 in income and $590,000 in expenses.

Millage will remain at 1.27 mills.

Although the township has not raised real estate taxes in 15 years, the township agreed to borrow $485,000 from Somerset Trust Company to fund a retaining wall project on River Road.

The supervisors awarded the contract for the project to Goette, an Ohio Company that was the lowest bidder.

Other proposals included $479,000 from Applachian Industries of Perryopolis and $411,000 from Lone Pine Construction.

Boni said McMillen Engineering, the firm hired for the project, recommended that the supervisors award the contract to Goette.

To finance the project, the supervisors agreed to borrow $485,000 from Somerset Trust Company for a 20-year period. The interest rate for the first five years will be 2.495 percent.

The loan rate will then be 75 percent of the prime rate or a mutually agreed upon amount for the tax-free loan, Boni said.

The township's payment will be $2,046 a month for 20 years, according to Boni.

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