Highway 104 reopens after tractor trailer flips

Highway 104 re-opened Sunday around 8:30 p.m. following a tractor trailer crash that sent boxes of crab flying across the road and closed the westbound lanes for hours. 

A tractor trailer carrying crab overturned near Kemptown, which is between Truro and New Glasgow, at about 11:00 a.m.

Police say the driver of the truck was not injured and he declined to be seen by EMS at the scene.

The overturned vehicle had been blocking both lanes, causing traffic to be being diverted on Highway 4 just around the two exits. One lane reopened before 4 p.m. 

Crab went flying

Victoria Bailey was in a car that was just about to pass the tractor trailer and witnessed the crash. 

"We were pulling out into the passing lane and we saw him heading toward the shoulder of the road, then he hit the guard rail. The next thing, the truck is teetering and flipped over," she told CBC. 

As the truck struck the guard rail, she says white boxes of crab started flying all over the road. She says there were "sections and legs flying everywhere."

Const. John Wavrychuk said crews would have to unload the cargo and flip the tractor trailer over before they could reopen the highway. He said that could take several hours.

Wavrychuk said drivers should be aware that traffic in the east-bound lanes of the highway is slow moving as well due to people slowing down to try to get a glimpse of the accident.