BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA — A semi-truck hauling ice cream caught fire early Tuesday morning, prompting the closure of the westbound Highway 58 Mount Vernon Avenue off-ramp, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP said the vehicle fire was reported around 2:17 a.m. on Highway 58 at the Mount Vernon Avenue off-ramp, where crews shut down lanes while cleanup operations were underway. Officials had not announced when the off-ramp would reopen as of the latest update. It was not...

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY — A busy downtown Louisville interstate ramp was temporarily shut down Tuesday after a semi hauling an oversized load became stuck in a sharp curve on the connector to Interstate 64 East, according to Louisville emergency officials. Officials issued a LENSAlert traffic advisory just after 11:30 a.m. for the ramp from Roy Wilkins Avenue to I-64 East, saying a truck carrying an oversized load had become lodged in the turn. The ramp reopened around 1:45 p.m. after...

SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA — A tractor-trailer driver has been arrested on homicide by vehicle charges in connection with a March crash that killed a school van driver at a busy intersection in Westmoreland County, according to Pennsylvania State Police and court documents. Photo credit: Shane Dunlap | TribLive State police said Isaac D. Stemple, 23, of Belington, West Virginia, was arrested Monday and later released on $100,000 unsecured bail. Troopers said the crash happened around...

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON — A truck driver escaped without injury after a load shift caused metal sheets to penetrate the back of a semi-truck’s cab on a freeway ramp in the Bellevue area, according to the Washington State Patrol. Photo credit: WSP Washington State Patrol troopers responded on Jan. 12, 2026, to the connection from I-90 westbound to I-405 for a crash involving a commercial semi hauling an oversized load of metal sheets. WSP District 2 Public Information...

PRIMM, NEVADA — A semi-trailer fire briefly blocked southbound Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California state line early Tuesday before traffic was reduced to a single-file squeeze past the scene near Primm, according to Nevada State Police and local reports. Troopers said the fire was reported around 4:30 a.m. on I-15 southbound near mile marker 5, roughly five miles north of Primm. Crews responded to the shoulder area, and authorities said the southbound lanes were fully blocked...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — A crash involving a semi-truck forced a full shutdown of the 101 Freeway in East Hollywood early Tuesday before lanes reopened later in the morning, according to the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Fire Department. Sky5 video showed crews working the scene on the northbound 101 at Vermont Avenue around 7 a.m., where a jackknifed tractor-trailer and a smaller vehicle were involved. The smaller vehicle appeared to have caught fire. CHP’s...

ALABAMA — An off-duty LSU Police Department sergeant stopped to help at the scene of a serious interstate crash in Alabama after an 18-wheeler overturned, trapping the driver inside the cab, according to LSU Police Department. Authorities said Sgt. T. Schiebe came upon the wreck while traveling through Alabama with his family. Officials said the tractor-trailer reportedly suffered a tire blowout before overturning on the roadway. Sgt. T. Schiebe/LSU Police Department Despite...

SAINT-ALEXANDRE-DE-KAMOURASKA, QUEBEC — A VIA Rail train derailed early Monday morning in Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region after colliding with two semi-trailer trucks that were parked near the tracks, according to the Sûreté du Québec and local reporting. According to N00vo Info, the crash happened at approximately 1:30 a.m. in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, where two truck drivers were reportedly sleeping in their vehicles when they were struck. Officials...

FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — A tractor-trailer driver was killed Monday afternoon after the truck ran off River Road in Cumberland County and rolled down an embankment into a creek, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol and NCDOT. Photo credit: Raymond Duffy/CBS 17 Officials said the crash happened just after 12:30 p.m. on River Road near Middle River Loop in Fayetteville. Troopers reported the tractor-trailer was traveling southbound on River Road near Middle Road...

MILTON, NEW YORK — Emergency crews performed a roof removal to rescue a person trapped inside a car after a crash involving a tractor-trailer Monday morning at a Milton intersection, according to the Ballston Spa Fire Department. Photo credit: Ballston Spa Fire Department The crash was reported around 11:17 a.m. at Galway Road and Middleline Road, officials said. Responding units were advised it was a car versus tractor-trailer collision with a patient trapped...

ST. GEORGE, UTAH — A commercial truck driver was killed Monday morning after a flatbed truck hauling construction supplies rolled over on northbound Interstate 15 near the Brigham Road exit in St. George, according to the Utah Highway Patrol and local reports. The crash was reported around 6:51 a.m. near milepost 4, just north of the Brigham Road overpass, UHP said. Troopers reported a flatbed commercial Mack truck was traveling northbound carrying construction materials when it left...

ELKRIDGE, MARYLAND — A fatal crash on Interstate 95 in Howard County forced lane closures in both directions during the Monday morning rush hour after a trash truck struck a parked tractor-trailer on the southbound side, Maryland State Police said. The collision happened around 5:30 a.m. on I-95 southbound near Exit 43 (Maryland Route 100) in Elkridge, a major east-west corridor connecting areas including Ellicott City and Glen Burnie. State police said the trash truck crashed into...