Wind turbine blade crashes into traffic on busy Northeast interstate
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One person is reported injured after a wind turbine blade broke loose from a truck and crashed into traffic on Interstate 70 in Maryland.

It happened early Monday morning in Washington County, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) confirmed to Fox News Digital.

“Around 5:30 a.m., a westbound tractor trailer on I-70 carrying a wind turbine blade hit the guardrail, causing the blade to protrude into the eastbound lanes,” according to a statement. “A tractor trailer traveling eastbound then clipped the blade.”

The crash resulted in the closure of all westbound lanes of I-70 at I-81 and two lanes in the eastbound direction, the Maryland SHA said on X. 

Turbines from the Roth Rock wind farm on Backbone Mountain adjacent to the Mettiki Coal processing plant on August 23, 2022, in Oakland, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla)

“Heavy tow crews managed to reverse the truck after removing the guardrail, returning the trailer to the westbound lanes. The entire unit was then moved up to I-70 west of Md. Rt. 63 and parked on the broad shoulder,” the SHA statement reported.

Maryland wind turbine closeup

The Roth Rock project in Oakland, Maryland, has 20 Nordex N90/2500 turbines and has been operating since 2011. ( Chip Somodevilla)

The one person taken to the hospital had non-life-threatening injuries, according to FOX 5 DC. 

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