Two Alabama men were injuried when the tractor-trailer they were in went down an embankment and overturned just after 7 a.m. May 28 on I-78, Weisenberg Township, State Police Troop M Fogelsville say.

Damian Q. Ford, 21, of Livingston, Ala., was driving the 2014 Kenworth tractor on I-78 East in the right lane when it left the roadway and hit a guide rail.

The rig traveled off the roadway, through the guide rail, down an enbankment and overturned before coming to a final rest on its roof at the bottom of the enbankment, near the former New Smithville Hotel, 10425 Old Route 22.

Ford, who was wearing his seat belt, and his passenger John M. Rivers, 33, of Montgomery, Ala., sustained minor injuries and were transported by Cetronia Ambulance Corps to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township.

Ford was cited with careless driving and having an accident involving an overturned vehicle, police say.

Weisenberg Township Fire Chief Scott Freeman commented on his firefighters' involvement at the scene of the accident.

Freeman said firefighters were dispatched at 7:14 a.m. for a tractor-trailer accident with rollover down an embankment and entrapment.

"We arrived to find driver and passenger had self-extricated," Freeman emailed The Press. "The truck was on its roof and down an approximately 50-foot embankment.

"The driver said the truck was carrying bulk plastic pellets used for manufacturing. The load content was confirmed with the trucking company to insure there was no hazardous load."

Freeman said ropes and rigging were used to access the vehicle from the highway.

"Crews staged off Old Route 22 and accessed the scene via 4x4 vehicles," Freeman wrote. "They cut a patch to the scene with chainsaws.

"The scene was approximately a quarter mile off Old 22. The fuel tank on the truck, which was overturned, was leaking diesel from the cap."

A specialized spill unit from Tri-Clover Fire Department was called in to pump the fuel from tank, Freeman wrote, adding there was a water source approximately 25 feet from the accident scene.

Weisenberg, Kutztown, Topton, Tri-Clover and New Tripoli fire departments, and Cetronia and Northwestern ambulance corps responded.

Although several tow trucks and workers from Hauser's Truck Service, Allentown, were at the scene the afternoon of the crash, the trailer re-mained on-site the next morning.

According to Freeman, his department was called out again to handle traffic as workers removed the trailer that day.