A tractor-trailer overturned Wednesday morning heading east along Highway 82 in Columbus, sending the driver of the 2010 Kenworth semi-truck to the hospital.
The one-vehicle incident happened around 5 a.m., near 18th Avenue, Columbus police officer Wade Beard said.
“We had a tractor-trailer coming eastbound over the bypass into the curb,” Beard said. “He had steel bundles and the load shifted, and he jackknifed into the west bound lane and it slid for about 100 yards.”
According to Beard, the Columbus Fire Department had to cut the driver, 52-year-old Paul Spencer of Prattville, Ala., out of the vehicle after the crash.
“It took a good 30 minutes to get (the driver) out I”m sure,” Beard said.
Both westbound lanes and one eastbound lanes were blocked off along the highway this morning.
“Westbound was blocked off completely from Military to 18th Avenue,” Beard said.
The driver was transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
“He has some fractures, but it”s nothing life-threatening,” Beard said.
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