WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. — Drivers in Maryland were stuck in traffic for an unusual reason on Monday.
The culprit was a crash involving a wind turbine blade that snarled traffic on Interstate 70 at Exit 26 on Interstate 81 on Monday morning in Washington County, Maryland.
According to media reports, around 5 a.m., Maryland State Police (MSP) troopers responded to westbound I-70 at Exit 26 (I-81) for a report of a single-vehicle incident.
According to MSP’s preliminary investigation, a tractor-trailer was traveling west, hauling a windmill blade, when the blade became loose, crossing over the center median and into the eastbound lanes.
MDOT traffic cameras showed the wind turbine blade sitting across the interstate.
As of 8 a.m., emergency crews removed the turbine blade from the road.
Officials said one person was taken by ambulance to Meritus Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
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It must have been very windy and this blade was just anxious to start killing birds?
Where was the rear pilot car? Do they not have communication with the truck driver? Maybe his English was so poor he didn’t know what to say or what I think we have a problem meant?
foreign driver or American driver?