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Mobile cranes and tow trucks were called in to remove the tractor-trailer that overturned and blocked Saxon Mattox Road on Monday morning. Another truck blocked Lexington-Carlton Road later that day.

Mobile cranes and tow trucks were called in to remove the tractor-trailer that overturned and blocked Saxon Mattox Road on Monday morning. Another truck blocked Lexington-Carlton Road later that day.

Truck accidents plague county

Tractor-trailers and their drivers are having a tough time in Oglethorpe County. Two 18-wheelers overturned on Monday — one of them on Saxon Mattox Road — and a third overturned at the same spot on Tuesday night.
The exterior of the Oglethorpe County Court House located on Lexington's Main Street. (Photo/Emily Garcia)

The exterior of the Oglethorpe County Court House located on Lexington's Main Street. (Photo/Emily Garcia)

Courts chip away at case backlog

Judge Jeffery S. Malcom likened the backlog of court cases in the Northern Judicial Circuit to an elephant that he and his fellow judges plan to eat one bite at a time.