EDWARDSVILLE - It’s not often that 40,000 pounds of soybeans are spilled on the interstate but that happened on I-55 Friday afternoon when a tractor-trailer truck overturned after it crossed into oncoming traffic.
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Another vehicle in the oncoming lane crashed trying to avoid the tractor trailer. Two people were transported to the hospital with injuries but they thankfully didn’t appear life-threatening.
The Edwardsville Fire Department worked the same from the time the call came in at 3:51 p.m. Friday to 5:56 p.m.
“It could have been much worse and fortunately there was not a head-on collision,” Edwardsville Deputy Fire Chief James Whiteford said.
Special equipment was brought in to extract the soybeans including another tractor-trailer and a bobcat.
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