Trailer overturns after driver loses control on I-70

An Arkansas man crashed his truck into the median and overturned his trailer on Interstate 70 Tuesday evening after the trailer began to swerve as he drove westbound.

Courtesy Indiana State Police

PUTNAMVILLE — A single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 in Putnam County Tuesday evening resulted in an overturned trailer and a trip to the hospital for an Arkansas man.

At 5:17 p.m., emergency agencies responded to a rollover crash in the westbound lanes of I-70 near the 38-mile marker, three miles west of Cloverdale.

The investigation by Indiana State Trooper David Cox Jr. revealed that 54-year-old Dwight Norton of Huntsville, Ark., was westbound in the passing lane when his trailer reportedly began to swerve, causing his 2001 Chevrolet pickup and trailer to leave the roadway and the trailer to overturn.

Norton was taken to Putnam County Hospital for treatment of back pain.

The driver was also cited for no valid driver’s license and no vehicle insurance.

Assisting were troopers Justin Bell, David Petrowski, Courtland Woodruff and Ian Portteus as well as the Cloverdale Police Department, Cloverdale Township Volunteer Fire Department, Putnam County Operation Life and Curtis Wrecker Service.