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Last updated on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
(BLOOMINGTON) - A tractor-trailer carrying loaves of bread on North Ind. 37 struck a bridge overpass within the I-69 construction zone near North College Avenue on Tuesday morning and closed down the highway for more than three hours.
According a Monroe County Sheriff's report, 27-year-old Brandon Nicholson of East Chicago, the driver of the 2006 Freightliner, told police that he fell asleep while traveling north on State Road 37.
Police say the semi drifted across the gravel median and into the southbound lanes. It then hit the bridge for the North College Avenue exit overpass. The semi stretched across both northbound lanes once it stopped.
The roof of the trailer was partially ripped off and slices of bread were scattered across the four-lane highway.
Nicholson was not injured, but his 37-year-old female passenger was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital with a serious head injury.
Police closed the highway while crews swept away the debris. Traffic was detoured Sample Road until the lanes reopened around 8:35 a.m.
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