WFAA-TV

DALLAS — One person was killed and at least three others were hurt Friday afternoon when a cement mixer crashed across a freeway median and struck two other vehicles.

Police said the driver of the truck was headed southbound on Highway 183 a short distance from the intersection with Interstate 35E at Mockingbird Lane.

Just before 3 o'clock, the big truck flipped into the northbound lanes, striking a motorcycle and landing on its side atop a red sport utility vehicle.

The 41-year-old driver of the SUV was killed, but a six-year-old girl in the same vehicle survived. She was hospitalized in critical condition.

The drivers of the cement truck and the motorcycle were hospitalized in serious condition.

It took an hour for two heavy-duty wreckers to lift the cement truck from the flattened SUV. Only then was a team of Dallas firefighters able to slide the wreck out from underneath the truck.

Northbound lanes of Highway 183 were shut down while the rescue efforts continued. Traffic in the southbound lanes was slowed by a light pole that toppled to the pavement, blocking at least one lane.

The Texas Department of Transportation said Highway 183 would be shut down at least through the early evening hours while the wreckage was cleared. Northbound traffic was being diverted to I-35E.