Early Friday morning two tractor trailers collided on Interstate 84.
According to police, the accident happened shortly after 4 a.m. on Interstate 84 eastbound between exits 66 and 67 in Vernon. They said that one tractor trailer truck was parked on the side of the highway while its driver, 45 year old Jonathan Oberko, of Bronx NY, was sleeping in the sleeper cab section.
Then a second truck, driven by 42 year old Artan Nika, of Peabody MA, moving eastbound on the highway in the right lane, drifted onto the shoulder section of the roadway, and collided with Oberko’s truck. The impact caused Nika’s truck to catch fire, which rapidly ran out of control.
Neither of the drivers was seriously injured and Nika said he was unhurt and refused medical attention at the scene, whereas Oberko reported non life threatening injuries and taken to Rockville Hospital for treatment.
Both sides of the highway were closed for about 40 minutes while fire crews worked to extinguish the fire but both rigs were totalled in the accident, and were towed away from the scene.
Eastbound lanes were reopened to traffic by 11:30 a.m.
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