UPDATE: Thursday – 2/13/2014, 2:45pm ET
WASHINGTON – All local lanes of the Inner Loop of the Beltway have reopened at Interstate 295 after an earlier truck crash.
EARLIER: Thursday – 2/13/2014, 11:34am ET
WASHINGTON — A tractor-trailer crash caused some delays on the snowy Capital Beltway Thursday morning.
A tractor-trailer overturned on the Inner Loop at Interstate 295 and blocked the local lanes at about 7:45 a.m. Crews were on the scene working to move the tractor- trailer as of about 11 a.m.
All traffic is being diverted onto northbound I-295.
MD – Inner loop #beltway at 295 (exit 2) LOCAL LANES blocked – all traffic diverted onto NB 295 #mdtraffic #dctraffic pic.twitter.com/8iNg3UJdjl
— Jack Taylor (@WTOPJack) February 13, 2014
It is not clear if the driver of the tractor-trailer was injured in the crash. Authorities have not yet said what caused the crash.
Local roadways have been littered with crashes Thursday morning after overnight snow left slick roadways. Officials are requesting people not drive on the roadways Thursday morning.
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