Traffic was at a standstill for as much as 13 miles on Interstate 91 south Tuesday afternoon and evening after a tractor-trailer jackknifed on the Rocky Hill/Cromwell line that sent at least one person to the hospital.
Fuel has spilled from the tractor-trailer in the crash, which happened just before 2 p.m. near exit 23, causing lane closures. The tractor-trailer swerved into the right breakdown lane, sideswiping an unoccupied parked truck. The big rig kept going, slamming into a Dumorr Lift Rentals LLC vehicle in the breakdown lane with a boom, state police said.
CMAC Electric Company employee Jason J. Brown, 38, was repairing a Department of Transportation traffic camera was thrown from the bucket he was harnessed to and later transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection responded to the crash due to a minor fuel leak, which they were able to contain and clean up.
Traffic got by in the left lane only and there were major traffic delays in the area late into the evening ours. Traffic was backed up to Hartford. Drivers either sought alternate routes or got stuck in the bumper to bumper traffic.
State police are investigating the crash.
