Police are searching for a pickup truck that cut a tanker truck off and caused it to drive into a ditch on Sunday evening.
It happened on Interstate 65, near mile marker 108, just outside of White House, Tennessee.
According to WSMV, the tanker truck was driving northbound on I-65 at about 11 p.m. on Sunday, June 2nd, when the pickup truck cut it off. The truck driver swerved to avoid a collision and ended up losing control and driving off the roadway, landing in a grassy ditch.
Authorities search for pickup truck driver involved in tanker crash on I-65 in the Springfield and White House areahttps://t.co/qGiI3o38Yd pic.twitter.com/vAXrE2wixS
— WSMV-TV, Nashville (@WSMV) July 2, 2017
The pickup driver then sped away, leaving the scene of the accident.
The tanker truck driver was taken to a nearby hospital but has already been released. His identity has not been released.
Nearly 7,400 gallons of 87 octane fuel spilled into a nearby creek as a result of the wreck, closing the northbound lanes of I-65 for four hours as hazmat crews cleaned up the spill. The highway has since been reopened.
Officers have not released a description of the suspect, but are asking anybody with information to please step forward.