The southbound passing lane of Interstate 65 is closed at the 58-mile-marker as crews chip away at removing a load of potatoes from a semitrailer, police report.
That semitrailer was involved in a personal-injury wreck earlier in the afternoon that left both the southbound and northbound passing lanes closed, Sgt. Stephen Wheeles said
Wheeles, public information officer for the Indiana State Police Versailles Post, said shortly before 6 p.m. that a crew was removing a load of potatoes from the trailer.
The potatoes have to be removed from the trailer before it can be removed from the median, Wheeles said.
He urged southbound motorists to watch for traffic to suddenly stop.
Few other details about the wreck were available.
Updated at 6 p.m. Thursday.
A wreck north of the Seymour/Jonesville exit has closed the passing lanes of Interstate 65 both northbound and southbound, police report.
Wheeles has shared photos on Twitter of a semitrailer across the median at the 58-mile marker, which is three miles north of the Jackson-Bartholomew county line.
He said the state police and the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the personal-injury wreck.
A Tribune reader also shared a photo of southbound traffic at a standstill around 3:10 p.m.
Stay tuned for further details.