Overturned Truck Closes Mount Airy Road For Hours

Mount Airy Road is reopened following at 11:12 a.m. accident at the intersection of Mount Airy and Valley roads.  Preliminary reports indicate that a box truck heading north on Mount Airy Road collided with a passenger car heading west through the intersection with Valley Road, police said.

Police said the box truck then overturned as a result of the collision, and the driver of the truck required extricated from the vehicle by the Liberty Corner Fire Company. Police said the driver suffered a leg injury. That driver was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital by the Liberty Corner First Aid Squad, along with a man and woman who had been in the passenger car, police reported.

The occupants of the car were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure, with no specific injuries reported, police said.

The road remained closed to traffic for more than two hours, reopening before 2 p.m. Somerset Hills Towing from Bernardsville was at the scene to remove the truck from the intersection. Police detoured traffic from the intersection onto Hessian Street or Lyons Road.