A crash at Interstate 435 and Metcalf lead to a traffic mess Wednesday morning.
A vehicle traveling westbound on Interstate 435 hit a barricade, pushing it into the eastbound lanes of the interstate before 4 a.m. A tractor-trailer then hit the barricade resulting in a fire and a partial shutdown of the interstate.
While the interstate reopened to traffic, two lanes remained closed for several hours.
This all happened in the work zone that has reduced eastbound and westbound lanes to three in both direction for the I-435 Pavement Project.
Two of the three eastbound lanes are between concrete traffic barriers protecting the lanes from westbound traffic. The concrete barrier that was moved during the crash remained in those two left lanes blocking them to traffic.
Travelers were forced through one lane of traffic on eastbound I-435 at Quivira causing major delays for people all the way back to southbound I-435 and 87th.
KDOT crews are still in the process of fixing the concrete barrier.
