DUBOIS COUNTY, Ind. — A semitruck carrying thousands of gallons of milk tipped over on an Indiana freeway Thursday, trapping and killing the driver, authorities said.
According to the Evansville Courier & Press and WFIE-TV, the wreck occurred about 2 p.m. along U.S. Route 231 in Dubois County.
“First responders arrived on scene minutes later and found a semi tanker hauling around 6,000 gallons of milk on its side with the driver entrapped,” Indiana State Police said in a news release.
The Dubois County Coroner’s Office pronounced the driver dead at the scene, police said. Authorities have not yet released the victim’s name.
Officials shut down the freeway for eight hours “while emergency crews cleared the scene and unloaded the milk into another tanker,” according to the release. The road reopened Thursday night, the news outlets reported.
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