A driver today discovered that speeding past a flagger trying to stop traffic may have unpleasant results.

A little before 6 p.m., a driver in a red pickup truck headed east on Hwy 36 encountered the area where a federal road realignment project is under construction west of the tiny town of Dinsmore.

According to a witness at the scene, the driver wearing what appeared to be his underwear “blew by the flagger at a hi[gh] rate of speed, headed into the job site, [and] ran into the back of a water truck.”

The pickup then went off the road and the driver attempted to flee on foot down into a nearby construction area but was captured and restrained by workers. Scanner traffic indicated that it took eight men to restrain the captured driver.

A loader bucket carried the man back up to the road where he was later taken into custody by the California Highway Patrol.