Driver hospitalized after crashing UPS truck on its side on I-70 ramp

ENGLEWOOD — A driver is hospitalized after crashing a UPS truck on its side in Englewood early Tuesday morning.

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Englewood police and medics were dispatched to the area of Main Street (State Route 48) and Interstate 70 just after 4 a.m. on initial reports of a semi crashing onto its side.

Medics transported the driver to Miami Valley Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Lt. Dallas Root of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

“The semi was heading eastbound on Interstate 70, went off the right side of the roadway, through the guardrail, just past the ramp, came down the embankment, and then overturned as it the hit the ditch and slid across State Route 48,” he told News Center 7′s Xavier Hershovitz.

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Root says there’s a steep ditch line filled with rocks and the semi overturned.

“When you have a semi in the middle of the roadway, it’s not safe,” he said. “You can injure a lot of people if you don’t get the area clear.”

He told Hershovitz the driver may have fallen asleep but wouldn’t rule anything out until they spoke to the driver and completed their investigation.

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The ramp to and from Eastbound Interstate 70 to State Route 48 was closed for several hours while troopers cleaned up the debris from this crash.

State Route 48 was also closed in both directions.

OSHP dispatchers told News Center 7 that the ramp was reopened just after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.

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Root said with a semi in the middle roadway, it’s not safe.

“You can injure a lot of people if you don’t get the area clear,” he said.

Root is hoping to have the roadways back open this morning.

UPS has released the following update regarding the incident:

“ We are aware of an accident involving a UPS feeder truck early this morning. The driver was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries. The safety of our employees is our top priority. There was no damage to packages onboard the trailer. The tractor-trailer was towed and offloaded to another to continue on its way.”

The crash remains under investigation.

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