What was all that glass on major highway in Charlotte? About the shutdown

Anything can happen when driving along Charlotte’s sometimes open, sometimes jammed highways.

But drivers in south Charlotte were presented a new obstacle Thursday morning: glass shards covering three lanes of a highway, shutting it down.

A tractor-trailer carrying a covered load of mirror glass sheets took the Interstate 485 exit to Interstate 77 south at 10 a.m., but maneuvered to avoid a crash and lost most its cargo, said Aaron Moody, the assistance communications director at the N.C. Department of Transportation…

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