CenterPoint worker injured after truck collides with 18-wheeler

HOUSTON – A CenterPoint Energy employee was pulled from wreckage after his utility truck collided with an 18-wheeler.

The wreck happened at 9:25 a.m. in the 5500 block of South Loop East at Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.

The crash shut down multiple lanes around the loop as first responders controlled the scene.

Paramedics and firefighters were at the scene working to pull a victim from the wreckage.

The worker was not severely injured. HPD called the situation a “major, non-fatal crash.”

The cause of the wreck remains unknown.