Traffic was backed up for over 45 minutes after a car carrier jackknifed along Route 443 in the area of Lehighton Ford Friday morning.

Borough patrolman Matt Bender said a Stroudsburg trucking company was pulling a car off to deliver to Lehighton Ford at 9 a.m.Bender said that as the driver attempted to turn the carrier around, its trailer dug into the asphalt, the drive wheels of the truck lifted upward, and the driver free-spun the wheels and couldn't go anywhere, which resulted in the entire highway being blocked."It was blocking two lanes of traffic and the shoulders," Bender said. "We couldn't get cars around him, (so) we had to use the parking lot of the Boulevard to get the cars around him. All the trucks had to be lined up on the side of the highway until we got him cleared up."Bender said once the line of trucks on the shoulder of the road backed up to the bridge, police shut down the road completely. That was the time the tow truck arrived to pull the carrier out.Jared Hoffman of All-Points Towing explained how he handled the situation."We couldn't pull it straight forward or backward due to his position and length, so I hooked to the very rear trailer wheel and pulled it up and toward me to slide the trailer off the hump and closer to being straight on 443 so the truck could pull out easier," Hoffman said.Bender said the highway was opened to traffic and cleared up as of 9:55 a.m.All things considered, Bender said the situation "went extremely well.""Nobody got upset, no one was screaming, no one was yelling," he said. "The tow truck arrived and pulled him out pretty quickly."Bender said there were a total of five vehicles - one truck, two SUVs, and two sedans - on the carrier, none of which sustained any damage.However, he said the asphalt got scraped and torn up, though it was, "nothing that really needed any repair."No other vehicles were involved in the matter, Bender said.Also assisting at the scene were Lehighton Fire Police, Mahoning Fire Police, and the Mahoning Police Department.Bender, who has been with the borough police department for the past 17 years, said the situation was unlike any he's ever had to oversee."Normally, that doesn't happen there," he said. "I can never remember it getting hung up before."Bender said the driver will be cited, though the investigation is ongoing.