A fiery wreck involving three vehicles shut down the westbound lane Interstate 30 early Tuesday.
The driver of the pick-up truck suffered only minor injuries when a semi-truck rear-ended his pick-up truck and it struck another semi-truck at the 219 mile marker between Texarkana and Nash, said Shawn Vaughn, spokesman for the Texarkana, Texas Police Department.
No one else was injured. Traffic was rerouted to U.S. Highway 82 for several hours after the accident shut down the westbound lane.
Vaughn said vehicles were slowing down in a construction area when a semi-truck rear-ended the pickup truck and the pickup hit the semi-truck in front of it. The pickup and the semi-truck it hit both caught on fire.
Some Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers happened upon the accident pretty quickly but the driver of the pickup had already escaped the vehicle with only minor injuries.
Texarkana, Texas Fire Department fought the blaze.
The semi-truck that burned was carrying mangoes, Vaughn said.