Sheriff's Office: GPS gets semi driver stuck on foot bridge near North Point Lighthouse

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- A semi-trailer truck got stuck on a foot bridge near the North Point Lighthouse on Tuesday evening, November 11th.

Milwaukee County Sheriff's officials tell FOX6 News calls started coming in around 4:30 p.m.

Sheriff's officials say the semi's driver is a 50-year-old man who claimed he was following GPS directions that apparently led him to a foot path, over an initial pedestrian bridge and onto a second bridge, where the semi stopped.

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