Update at 8:44 a.m.: All lanes of I-81 South have been re-opened for travel. THP still hasn't released the names or conditions of the people in the tractor trailer. A dispatcher said all media calls must now go to a THP spokesman in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Update at 6 a.m.: One lane of I-81 South has re-opened.
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Greene County, TN - Interstate 81 South between the Jearoldstown and Baileyton Exits is closed in Greene County after a tractor trailer hit two vehicles in a work zone last Sunday night.
Just before midnight, the truck carrying furniture hit a truck contracted by the Tennessee Department of Transportation and a Tennessee Highway Patrol Car near the I-81 southbound rest stop near the 41 mile-marker.
One person in the tractor trailer was air-lifted to Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport after being trapped for a while in the cab of the truck. Another passenger in the tractor trailer was transported to HVMC by ambulance. No word yet on the extent of their injuries.
THP identified the Trooper as Nathan Hall, an officer assigned to Hawkins County who just recently transferred to the district from the Nashville area. Hall was treated and released from a local hospital.
No one was in the the TDOT-contracted truck at the time of the wreck. The truck belonged to an Ohio-based company contracted by TDOT.
I-81 remains closed as crews clean up diesel and a paint-like substance that escaped from the TDOT truck that was putting reflector lines on the interstate.
No word yet when the interstate will re-open.
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