Aug. 22, 1974
Disaster was narrowly avoided when a log truck struck a flatbed truck at the Holley Service Station. The flatbed was stopped on Hwy. 228 to turn into the station when a loaded log truck struck it. The impact forced the flatbed into the gas island, shearing off the gas pump, knocking aside a diesel pump, and barely missing the station owner and his wife. The impact ignited the gas, with fire…