A tractor-trailer carrying frozen chicken veered off U.S. Highway 71 Thursday morning and “was sucked in by the ditch” causing the rig to overturn, said an Arkansas State Police trooper.

The southbound 1992 Kenworth tractor, driven by Thomas E. West, 61, of Elkland, Mo., veered off the west side of the highway.

“The driver didn’t know what happened. He just drove off the road. The shoulder was so muddy that the truck was just sucked in by the ditch, and he laid it over,” said ASP Senior Cpl. Roger Whitmore.

The accident was reported at 1:25 a.m.

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