Driver dies after tractor-trailer crashes in river near Graham
A tractor-trailer driver died Wednesday morning after his truck crashed on Interstate 85 South in Alamance County and went down an embankment into a river.
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Authorities did not release his name.
The crash happened around 8:15 a.m. near Jimmie Kerr Road near Graham, according to WFMY News 2 in Greensboro. The cab of the tractor-trailer was submerged underwater, but crews were able to pull it out of the river.
Two of four lanes of I-85 South were closed at mile marker 150 and were not expected to reopen until mid-afternoon.
A witness told troopers that the Western Express truck, which was hauling bottled water, had stopped at a nearby Pilot gas station shortly before the crash.
State Department of Transportation officials called in a crew to help clean up the fuel and bottled water that spilled into the creek.
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