Officials say a box truck went off the road, landing on the lanes below the overpass, while the 18-wheeler's cab ended up hanging partially over the overpass.
The Grand Parkway westbound was closed at Birnham Woods for several hours while crews work to clean up the wreckage.A driver is in critical condition after a crash between an 18-wheeler and a box truck left one of the vehicles dangling over the Grand Parkway in Montgomery County on Monday morning. The latter vehicle, the box truck, ended up on the lanes below.
Officials told ABC13 that the box truck went off the road during the crash, landing on the lanes below the overpass, while the 18-wheeler's cab ended up hanging partially over the overpass. Photos from the Spring Fire Department posted to Twitter just before 9 a.m. showed the perilous aftermath. "He was very appreciative," Huffman recalled. "He was very thankful. He did have a lot of kind words to say to our members, and it was nice to be able to rescue him, and he was unharmed.""We were lucky. You know you got three schools right behind you, and we got debris on the ground, the driver on the ground," Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack said.
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