Wednesday, May 11th 2011, 7:38 am
NewsOn6.com
TULSA, Oklahoma -- Westbound traffic is moving again on I-44 in Tulsa after it was shut down early Wednesday morning for over four hours because of semi tractor trailer crash.
A semi crashed into a concrete barrier east of the Peoria bridge just after 1:45 a.m.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the semi was headed west on I-44 when the truck drifted outside its lane and crashed into the barrier.
The impact broke off a good sized chunk of the concrete barrier and knocked some pieces of concrete onto the Peoria bridge. The driver was finally able to stop his rig after hitting a guardrail just west of the bridge.
The semi's fuel tank ruptured contaminating soil near the bridge. The soil will have to be dug up and removed by a backhoe.
There were no injuries.
"Drift off a little bit and you're going to clip these walls out here, and again like I said the construction changes from day to day. So you come through this area, the I-44 construction zone, you just need to be aware," said OHP trooper Darrick Eades.
The inside lane was re-opened to traffic at 6:15 a.m. and the outside lane was re-opened at 8:42 a.m. after Department of Transportation crews made repairs to a section of the bridge guardrail which was damaged in the crash.
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