A wreck involving a car hauler-tractor trailer closed a section of Interstate 10 for three hours after it jackknifed and overturned in Jefferson County on June 20, spilling the vehicles it was carrying, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The driver, a 54-year-old Gainesville man, was listed in serious condition, according to a news release.
The wreck happened around 4 p.m. as the car hauler was headed west on I-10, passing mile marker 221. The semi left the roadway and traveled into the shoulder, then veered back into its lane, but the driver overcorrected, causing the tractor trailer to start rotating. It eventually smashed into a guard rail.
Then the trailer ejected the three vehicles it was hauling, the release said. The semi “continued down into the wood line where the left rear of the semi collided with a standing tree,” where it overturned. The semi “came to final rest on its roof.”
The driver was rushed to a nearby hospital and the interstate was shut down in the area of the accident from shortly after 4 p.m. till around 7 p.m. The Highway Patrol does not name crash victims and no further information about his condition has been released.
Troopers were assisted on scene by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Jefferson County Fire Rescue.
Jim Rosica can be reached at jrosica@tallahassee.com. Follow him on X: @JimRosicaFL.
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: FHP: Car hauler flips on I-10, flinging vehicles and halting Big Bend traffic
Reporting by Jim Rosica, Tallahassee Democrat / Tallahassee Democrat
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