A semi-truck swerved off U.S. 30 Friday morning, crashed through the guardrail, rolled down a small embankment, burst through a fence, and came to rest in a vacant lot, knocking down a tree.

The accident happened shortly before six o'clock, with the truck narrowly missing a small house on Crestline Avenue.

Neighboring resident Brad Fike was lying on the living roof couch watching TV when he heard the commotion.  He said it sounded like a freight train.  He ran outside and saw the truck, and said someone yelled the driver was okay.

Mansfield firefighters were called to clean-up leaking diesel fuel, while a crew unloaded the trailer of 41,000 pounds of ham.

It was put into a dumpter because one of the workers said it was unfit for human consumption because the packages broke open and the ham was spoiling by being in a warmer than acceptable temperature.