UPDATE: I-80 Reopens Following Tractor-Trailer Rollover Crash

Joanne Bauer

Joanne Bauer

Published October 18, 2018 2:19 am
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BROOKVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Interstate 80 East has reopened following a tractor-trailer accident shut down a portion of the roadway in Clarion and Jefferson Counties on Wednesday evening.

(Photo above courtesy Brookville Volunteer Fire Company.)

DuBois-based State Police say the roadway reopened shortly after 10:00 p.m.

Around 5:32 p.m., a tractor-trailer rollover occurred at mile marker 79.6 eastbound on the North Fork Bridge, according to a representative of Jefferson County Department of Emergency Services.

The representative said the tractor-trailer was hauling steel coils.

The tractor-trailer was blocking both eastbound lanes of traffic, according to DuBois-based State Police.

One person suffered minor injuries.

Brookville Volunteer Fire Company, PSP DuBois, PennDOT, and Brookville Borough Police were called to the scene.

Corsica Volunteer Fire Department and Pine Creek Volunteer Fire Department assisted with traffic control.

Traffic was detoured off Exit 70, Strattanville, onto U.S. Route 322 through Brookville and then back onto I-80 at Exit 81, Hazen.

Specific details on the accident have not yet been released.

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(PHOTO: Traffic backup near Interstate 80 mile marker 66. Photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media.)

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