BATON ROUGE - A collision caused a box truck to overturn at Airline Highway, near Jefferson Highway, leaving two people with non-life-threatening injuries. 

The accident occurred Thursday morning, around 7:45 a.m and led to a temporary closure of Airline Highway North.

Louisiana State Police say the truck was headed north on Airline Highway when another vehicle ran a stop sign and hit the truck, causing it to overturn. 

The driver of the other vehicle was ticketed with a Stop Sign Violation. 

Airline Hwy (US 61) North is closed at Jefferson Hwy (LA 73) due to an overturned tractor trailer.

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