CRANBERRY TWP — An early morning tractor-trailer accident shut down one lane of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township on Tuesday.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, around 5 a.m. a single tractor-trailer owned by YRC carrying two tractors left the roadway and hit a pier of the bridge carrying Freedom Road over the interstate, causing damage to the back of the rear trailer.

The trailer was carrying boxed packages of a liquid food substance, PennDOT officials said, and the contents spilled onto the roadway. Even though crews were called to attend to the mess, it was not considered hazardous or corrosive material.

A tow-truck crew was continuing the cleanup around 11:30 a.m., and officials expected the road to be opened by mid-afternoon at the latest, barring any major complications.

The collision with the bridge did not cause any structural deformities, PennDOT said, and the specific pier the tractor-trailer hit is scheduled to be demolished as part of the Freedom Road bridge project.