KNOXVILLE, TN : 1 injured in I-81 tractor-trailer crash on Thursday, 1st June 2023

Two tractor-trailers were involved in a crash that happened on the interchange in Jefferson County on Thursday. Tennessee Highway Patrol released on Friday that one person was injured in the crash and another was charged.

Friday afternoon, THP said the crash happened on Thursday when the two tractor trailers were traveling east on I-40. The preliminary report said an unknown SUV cut in front of one of the tractor-trailers, causing it to swerve and hit the other tractor trailer. THP said the truck that was hit then went into the ditch, flipped over onto its top, before it continuing down onto I-81, under the I-40 overpass, where it came to a rest on it’s top.

The driver of the tractor-trailer that flipped was injured, according to the preliminary report.

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