On Sunday, August 12, at approximately 5:30am, NCSO deputies, along with Sweetwater police and fire units, responded to a single vehicle crash involving an overturned tractor-trailer that was blocking both northbound lanes of travel on US84 near county road 138.

It was found, that the tractor-trailer tanker, loaded with milk and traveling southbound on US84, left the roadway and as a result, overturned, then came to a rest partially in the median while blocking both northbound lanes of travel. A short time later, a small passenger vehicle, traveling northbound, drove onto the crash scene and as the driver attempted to avoid a collision, subsequently went into a skid and left the roadway.

Both drivers sustained minor injuries and were transported to the Rolling Plaines Emergency room by Sweetwater Ambulance Service. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Robert Regan later arrived and conducted a traffic crash investigation. Texas Department of Transportation and Roscoe Volunteer Firemen also arrived and assisted in traffic control while the tractor-trailer and debris was removed from the area; thereafter the Health Department arrived and conducted a clean-up of the spilt product.