Construction on the Highway 2 overpass over the Trans-Canada Highway in Moose Jaw in October. The $33.7-million project will raise the bridge clearance from about 4.5 metres to the province’s current standard of 5.3 metres. (Ministry of Highways/Submitted)

Another busy Saskatchewan overpass hit by a semi truck

By CJME News Mar 16, 2026 | 6:03 PM

Another busy Saskatchewan overpass was hit by a semi truck carrying an excavator on Monday.

RCMP told CJME News that police were called around 3 p.m. after the semi heading south on Highway 39 hit an overpass on Highway 1 east of Moose Jaw.

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Police said there were no injuries reported and traffic was moving around the crash site by 4 p.m.

David Horth, Director of Communications for Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Highways said crews were assessing any potential damage to the structure.

The collision follows two overpasses being hit by semis carrying excavators in Saskatoon within the span of a single week.

The first overpass was hit on March 5 at Highways 11 and Highway 16, which affected traffic on both roads. The second overpass was hit on March 11, when a bridge at 108th Street was clipped by a truck.

Charges have been laid against the operator of the semi after the March 5 crash, with Saskatchewan Highway Patrol charging the driver with six offences, including damage to public improvement, driving with undo care and attention, operating with a major defect, brakes out of adjustment, exceeding maximum height restrictions and failure to comply with conditions of a permit.

Charges in the March 11 crash were also laid by Saskatoon police.

Not the first overpass problem in Moose Jaw

The problem had been previously identified in Moose Jaw, where the Highway 2 overpass over Highway 1 in the city had a long history of being hit by oversized loads.

A $33.7-million project was started in 2025 to replace the aging bridges there and raise each structure’s clearance height.

The original overpasses were about 58 years old and had a clearance of 4.5 metres, similar to the first overpass hit in Saskatoon. When construction is finished, the new structure will provide a clearance of 5.3 m, the ministry’s current standard for new bridge construction, and similar to the second overpass hit in Saskatoon.

The Moose Jaw project is still underway. The new northbound bridge opened to traffic in October, while contractors are expected to return in April to begin work on the southbound bridge. The full project is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.

Dan Palmer with the Highways Ministry said the overpasses at the site were struck at least nine times between 2020 and 2022, causing various degrees of damage.

Before the replacement project began, the province installed signs alerting drivers of the clearance space, along with over-height detection systems that trigger strobe lights in both directions of travel to alert approaching trucks carrying tall loads. Despite those warnings, the bridge was still struck.

— with files from 980 CJME’s Jacob Bamhour and CKOM News

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