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Northbound Interstate 35W Back Open Near Texas Motor Speedway After Fiery Crash

The northbound lanes of Interstate 35W are back open near Texas Motor Speedway after a tractor-trailer caught fire Thursday afternoon.

The incident took place between Dale Earnhardt Way and Texas 1171.

No injuries have been reported.[[512597771,C]]

The crash is the third tractor-trailer crash this week to end up in flames. On Monday, a driver was killed when his tractor-trailer went off the road and spilled a load of paper in Kaufman County. A second, unrelated fiery crash, also took place in Kaufman County Monday where a driver escaped injury after his truckload of flammable liquids caught fire. Read more on those incidents here.

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