A woman was ejected from a truck that rolled on westbound Loop 820 late Friday morning and its driver was trapped inside for a short time, according to reports.
The single-vehicle rollover wreck happened around 11 a.m., said Sgt. Eric Peters, police spokesman.
The woman, who was a passenger in the dump truck, was taken by helicopter to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Peters said.
The driver was pinned inside the truck and had to be freed by rescue workers. The driver was transported to a hospital by a Medstar ambulance in an unknown condition.
Investigators believe the driver lost control when he swerved to avoid stop-and-go traffic and then the truck hit a concrete wall, Peters said.
"That's when the vehicle rolled," Peters said.
Before it was cleared early Friday afternoon, the wreckage covered the entire highway, allowing westbound traffic to pass only on the shoulder, according to Traffic.com.
The wreck caused a traffic backup for about three miles in both directions, with onlookers clogging the eastbound lanes, Peters said.
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