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FAIRFAX, VA – A semi trailer truck carrying a prefabricated mobile home hit another vehicle before it jack knifed and overturned Thursday afternoon, July 8, on a highway in Fairfax County, Virginia. The rollover truck accident occurred near Washington, DC in the southbound lanes of Interstate 495 near Old Dominion Drive. The area is in the north section of the state about 57 miles southwest of Baltimore, Maryland and about 99 miles north of Richmond, VA.

Shortly after 12 noon on Thursday an unidentified truck driver from Delaware was driving an extra wide semi trailer truck south on Interstate 495 on the outer loop that goes around Washington, DC. The semi truck was carrying a prefabricated mobile home on its trailer and was reportedly traveling in the right lanes.

The truck accident was set off when another vehicle suddenly moved into the traffic lane occupied by the oversized truck. The driver of the semi trailer veered to the right to avoid colliding with the vehicle but hit a Ford F-450. The impact caused the truck driver to lose control of the trailer truck. The semi jack-knifed and the tractor section of the truck overturned on the interstate. When the trailer rolled over a portion of the mobile home fell off the truck.

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Emergency personnel responded to the truck accident and treated the truck driver before transporting him to Fairfax Inova Hospital. His injuries were reported as not life threatening. The driver of the Ford F-450 was not injured in the collision.

Virginia State Police troopers were at the site and shut down several southbound lanes of the interstate near the truck accident scene, backing up traffic for miles. State Police troopers and investigators with the Virginia Department of Transportation conducted a reconstruction of the incident.

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Highway crews were called to the scene to clean up the considerable amount of debris on the interstate. The trailer of the truck lost some of its wheels in the truck accident and was completely destroyed making it impossible to tow it from the scene. According to officials with VDOT construction equipment would be brought to the scene and the wreckage of the trailer would be taken apart and put in dumpsters to be carried away.

Three of the southbound lanes of I-495 reopened at about 1:35 p.m. Thursday and they expected all southbound lanes to be opened by 6:00 p.m.

At this time no charges have been made but are expected once authorities complete their investigation of the truck accident. It is not known if VSP officers have located the driver who set off the truck accident.

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