Wreck snarling traffic on 231 near Midland City

PINCKARD — Luther Moore leaned on the back of his upside-down 18-wheeler and talked on a borrowed cell phone.

“Yeah, I’m OK,” he said.

Moore was able to walk away from the accident that occurred Thursday afternoon on Highway 231 North near 231 Barbecue when his truck, carrying burnt aluminum, struck a white pickup truck, sending both into the ditch. A female driver was entrapped in the pickup truck and freed by paramedics, then transported to a local hospital. The extent of her injuries are not known.

Moore said he was northbound on 231, taking his cargo from Miami to Kentucky, when the white truck appeared to come out of a driveway or the shoulder on the east side of the highway.

“Came right into me. I couldn’t do nothing,” said Moore, a Pensacola, Fla., resident.

The impact sent the pickup into the ditch. The 18-wheeler careened to the left, then headed toward the ditch on the east side of the highway.

“I couldn’t steer. It just laid down and slid into the ditch. I thought this might be it for me, but I wasn’t scared,” Moore said.

Northbound traffic was diverted into one of the southbound lanes. Multiple agencies responded to the accident.