A South Carolina man has been issued three traffic tickets after a crash trapped him in the crushed cab of his truck for more nearly an hour and backed up traffic on Interstate 81 for miles, according to the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

Frederick Wong, 34, of Graniteville, South Carolina, was given tickets for speeding, following too closely and driving on the shoulder of the road, deputies said.

At 3:26 p.m., deputies responded to I-81 near the Nedrow and Onondaga Nation exit for a reported crash between two tractor trailers and a box-style truck.

A 2004 Freightliner tractor trailer being driven north by Wong on the shoulder of the highway sideswiped another tractor trailer that was stopped after having already been involved in a crash, deputies said.

The crash caused the second tractor trailer -- a 2019 Kenwood being driven by Maxime MacDuff, 40, of Quebec, Canada --- to rear-end a stopped Isuzu cargo box-style truck being driven by Phillip Randall, 40, of Clay.

MacDuff and Randall had been stopped because of the prior, unrelated crash, deputies said.

Wong was trapped in the crushed cab of his tractor trailer for nearly an hour, deputies said. He was taken to Upstate University Hospital with minor injuries.

No other injuries were reported in the crash.

The northbound lanes of I-81 at the Nedrow exit were closed for several hours before traffic could be diverted around the crash site. The highway has reopened.

Wong is expected to appear in Town of Onondaga Court on Sept. 19.