A tractor pulling a livestock trailer smashed into a retaining wall after driving off an embankment and crashing onto a highway below on Thursday afternoon.

The crash took place at about 3 p.m. in Waxahachie, Texas where U.S. Highway 287 crosses U.S. Highway 77. The livestock hauler was stopped perpendicular on 77, with the cab smashed into a retaining wall.

City officials told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that the driver of the livestock hauler had a blowout and went into the median and over the embankment onto 77 below.

Tire tracks could be seen in the grass in the median, and repair crews were looking over a large section of damaged concrete on 77 that looked like where the truck had hit the ground before crashing into the wall. NBC 5 News

The driver of the truck was hospitalized after th

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