Semi-truck carrying vegetables tumbles off, sending driver to the hospital

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    ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WTAE) — A tractor-trailer wreck in the North Hills Sunday morning sent the driver to the hospital and left dozens of crates of vegetables dumped along a hillside.

The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. on Interstate 279 South. State police say the truck driver struck a barrier and rolled off a bridge onto Mt. Nebo Road below.

The truck driver was taken to Allegheny General Hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries, according to police.

The truck was hauling vegetables, including lettuce, and sent dozens of boxes of produce spilling over the hill into a creek.

It’s unclear when that section of Mt. Nebo Road will reopen.

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