Crime & Safety

Man Hurt After Truck Rolls Over, Spills Cargo In North Hampton

A Dover man has been injured when a trash truck rolled over on I-95 in North Hampton, spilling cargo on the interstate.

NH State Police responded to a rollover accident on I-95 near North Hampton Tuesday.
NH State Police responded to a rollover accident on I-95 near North Hampton Tuesday. (Liz Markhlevskaya/Patch file)

NORTH HAMPTON, NH — A Dover man was injured Tuesday in a rollover truck accident on Interstate 95 South. State Police say Damion M. Lovely, 22, of Dover, was driving a trash hauling truck when the vehicle left the roadway and rolled over on its side, spilling cargo across the highway. The right two lanes of I-95 were closed for about an hour as crews removed the truck and the debris.

According to the State Police, the accident occurred around 1 p.m. Tuesday. Lovely suffered minor injuries and was transported to Portsmouth Regional Hospital. The passenger of the vehicle, a 19-year-old man from Greenland, was not injured, State Police say.

Fatigue appeared to be one of the factors in the crash, according to the State Police. The North Hampton Fire Department and New Hampshire Department of Transportation were among agencies to arrive to the scene.

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Anyone with further information about the incident is asked to call State Police Trooper Harrison Walters at 603-223-8490 or email harrison.walters@dos.nh.gov.

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