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Tractor-Trailers Collide, Two Flown to Shock Trauma

Northbound U.S. Interstate-95 was closed for nearly five hours.

Two men were flown by Medevac to Shock Trauma after a pair of tractor-trailers crashed at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday closing all lanes of traffic on northbound U.S. Interstate-95.

The accident took place near mile marker 87 north of Aberdeen by Maryland Route 543.

All lanes of traffic were reopened at about 7:50 a.m. Neither man's injuries are considered life threatening, according to a dispatcher for Maryland State Police.

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The dispatcher said one tractor-trailer came to a stop in the "slow lane" and was rear-ended by the other truck. Neither vehicle flipped over.

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