{"id":7761,"date":"2013-04-26T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2013-04-26T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:41:02","slug":"semi-truck-crashes-into-tractor-trailer-spills-yellow-paint-on-i-77-in-cornelius-n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/7761\/semi-truck-crashes-into-tractor-trailer-spills-yellow-paint-on-i-77-in-cornelius-n-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Truck Crashes into Tractor Trailer Spills Yellow Paint on I-77 in Cornelius N.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORNELIUS, NC &#8212; A semi truck accident took place on Wednesday, April 17, on Interstate 77 in Cornelius, N. C. shuttng down the roadway after a semi truck rear-ended a tractor trailer spilling yellow paint onto the road.\u00a0Cornelius, NC is about 20 miles north of Charlotte.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7767\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7767\" alt=\"Yellow paint was spilled all over the roadway after a tractor trailer crashed into the back of another big rig on the northbound I-77 in Cornelius, NC on April 17, 2013. Photo credit: wbtv.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow paint was spilled all over the roadway after a tractor trailer crashed into the back of another big rig on the northbound I-77 in Cornelius, NC on April 17, 2013. Photo credit: wbtv.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->According to the NCDOT, the accident occurred at about at 4:11 a.m. at mile marker 28 near the exit to Catawba Avenue in Cornelius.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7769\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7769\" alt=\"Map showing location of a tractor trailer crash on the northbound I-77 at the Catawba Ave exit in Cornelius, NC on April 17, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-map-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cornelius-nc-tractor-trailer-crash-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of a tractor trailer crash on the northbound I-77 at the Catawba Ave exit in Cornelius, NC on April 17, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WBTV reported that traffic was backed up as far as W.T. Harris Boulevard at exit 18 and that one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Truck Accident Lawyer News<\/a> is a truck accident and personal injury blog that publishes up to date truck accident and truck legal news from across the United States. Here you can find information on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/North-Carolina.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> North Carolina truck accident law<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORNELIUS, NC &#8212; A semi truck accident took place on Wednesday, April 17, on Interstate 77 in Cornelius, N. C. shuttng down the roadway after a semi truck rear-ended a tractor trailer spilling yellow paint onto the road.\u00a0Cornelius, NC is about 20 miles north of Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-truck-accidents","tag-north-carloina-truck-accident-attorneys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}