A tractor trailer was crushed beneath a tree after clipping its branches in Texas on Sunday morning.

The accident happened on September 23rd in Beaumont, Texas.

According to 12 News Now, a semi truck was driving along Avenue A between Easy Street and Irma Street, just north of Lamar University when it clipped the branches of a tree, pulling the entire tree down on top of the trailer and breaking it in half.

The incident shut down Avenue A until around 1:00 p.m. as Beaumont Fire-Rescue removed the tree and wrecked semi truck from the roadway.