Big Rig Hydroplanes, Overturns On Uptown Loop

An overturned tractor trailer caused a traffic nightmare for drivers in uptown Charlotte on Thursday morning.

Police said the truck driver was coming off the Independence Boulevard ramp and trying to merge onto the Brookshire Freeway just after 7:30 a.m. when she lost control on the bridge above 10th Street. They said weather was a factor in the crash.

The driver said she hydroplaned coming out of the curve and the trailer flipped. She was not hurt.

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A representative of the truck company, Schneider National, said the driver was transporting boxes of paper products from their Charlotte office. Dozens of those boxes spilled out onto the roadway, and some debris fell below onto 10th Street.

The driver was shaken after the accident.

"Oh, I'm so thankful I didn't hurt anybody, and we're OK,” she said.

Police said they do not plan to charge the tractor trailer driver.

Traffic on the Brookshire Freeway was blocked because of the crash until about 10:30 a.m. The North Carolina Department of Transportation will be sending out crews to fix the guardrail on Thursday afternoon.

NCDOT officials said they had to order some parts to fix a handrail, so those repairs will take several days.

Officers said they have responded to a number of accidents in the wet weather.