A woman driver was seriously injured after a crash involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 77 Saturday afternoon.
The crash happened at approximately 1:45 p.m. on I-77 near Exit 30 in Davidson when the womans car ran into the rear of a nearly stopped tractor-trailer.
Davidson and Cornelius firefighters had to cut the woman out of her car.
Emergency crews shut down both lanes of the highway while a helicopter landed to evacuate the woman and fly her to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
The southbound lane was re-opened around 2:20 p.m. while the northbound lane remained closed for a while afterward. At 5 p.m., the North Carolina Department of Transportation reported all lanes were open, but traffic remained slow up to at least 5:30 p.m.
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