Traffic was snarled on southbound I-55 for nearly two hours Thursday morning, Aug. 10, following a one-vehicle accident near the Hwy. Z exit in Pevely. No injuries were reported, Pevely Police Chief Mark Glenn said.
He said the Pevely Police Department received a call at 9:35 a.m. about the accident.
“It was a (big truck) on southbound I-55 south of Hwy. Z,” Glenn said. “He just drove off the roadway and the vehicle went over on its side. It had 37,000 pounds of cargo, which explains how it tipped over.”
The officers’ accident report was not completed as of today, Aug. 11, so no information was available about the driver’s identity; the make and model of the truck; nor the condition of the truck, Glenn said.
He said it took emergency responders about two hours to remove the truck from the side of the interstate, which affected traffic in the area.
“We had the right lane closed for a significant portion of the morning,” Glenn said. “The traffic kind of shut down on its own when the truck ran off the road. When officers got there, they kept the right lane closed. We had no other traffic issues. The lane reopened sometime after 11 a.m.”