A tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 64 has closed all eastbound lanes at mile marker 97.5 on Afton Mountain in Augusta County. This location is between exit 96 at Route 624 in the Lyndhurst area and exit 99 at Route 250 on Afton Mountain.
Operators at the Virginia Department of Transportation Traffic Operations Center do not have an estimated time of reopening. Reports from the area indicate a milk tanker was involved and HAZMAT teams are responding.
Motorists should anticipate significant delays in this area. Please check 511 for updates on lane closures.
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Update: Virginia State Police are on the scene of a two-vehicle crash in Augusta County on Interstate 64 at the 97 mile marker. At 12:36 p.m., state police were called to the scene in the eastbound lanes. A tanker truck collided with a pickup truck in the eastbound lanes of I-64. The impact caused the tanker truck, which is loaded with approximately 50,000 gallons of milk, to overturn onto its side. The drivers of both vehicles were transported to Augusta Health with non-life threatening injuries.
Eastbound lanes of I-64 are closed to through traffic as crews work to upright and remove the tanker truck. Traffic is being detoured around the crash at Exit 96. State police hope to have at least one eastbound lane open to through traffic by 3:30 p.m.
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