ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Several large metal objects fell off the back of a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon, smashing into a Jersey barrier on the Parkway West.
From Chopper 11, you could see the tractor-trailer along the side of the road near the Robinson Town Centre Boulevard exit. Several large objects were next to the tractor-trailer. Another one had hit the Jersey barrier, causing part of it to crumble.
"They rolled off and came flying across 376 into the median and they exploded the median," Don Pringle said.
[ PHOTOS: Metal coil smashes Jersey barrier on Parkway West ]
Several lanes of traffic were blocked, including he on-ramp from Route 22/30 to outbound I-376, but the parkway has since reopened.
"It looked like an explosion, like a bomb had occured.///there was like a huge cloud of dust and we were stunned for a minute," Heather Pringle said.
According to Allegheny County officials, the objects are steel coil.
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