SCRANTON, Pa. — A crash on Interstate 81 backed up traffic for miles and slowed the morning commute for hundreds of drivers.
The backup was caused by that crash that happened around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
According to state police, a pickup truck went off a bridge in the southbound lanes between the Central Scranton Expressway and Montage Mountain Exits. Troopers tell Newswatch 16 they believe a tractor-trailer may have been involved.
Officers say a woman and a 6-year-old child were ejected from the vehicle before it went off the bridge. The truck landed on the railroad tracks below. No other vehicles were involved. The woman and child were taken to the hospital. Police did not say how they got out of the truck.
Crews were able to remove the truck. They used a tow truck to lift the vehicle back onto Interstate 81 in Lackawanna County.
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