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Traffic on a busy highway in Westchester was backed up for hours as crews worked to clean up the site of a tractor-trailer rollover that sent one person to the hospital.
The rollover happened on Wednesday morning, Nov. 29 around 6 a.m. on I-287 near mile marker 4.2 between Exit 8 in White Plains and Exit 7 in North White Plains, New York State Police said.
According to authorities, a Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by a 63-year-old Florida man was traveling east on the highway when it was involved in a sideswipe collision with a Volkswagon sedan driven by a 52-year-old man from Ridgewood, New Jersey.
The tractor-trailer then overturned over the center median and struck another tractor-trailer driving west driven by a 30-year-old man from Long Island. The crash caused a load of solar panels to spill out onto the highway, police said.
The Long Island man, a resident of Lindenhurst in Suffolk County, was later taken to Westchester Medical Center with minor injuries.
The incident blocked the left and center lanes in both directions of the highway for several hours, with delays stretching four miles in the westbound lanes and 14 miles in the eastbound lanes at one point.
All lanes have since been reopened, police announced around noon.
The crash is now under investigation by police.
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