Police: Truck driver says 'sneezing fit' while talking to Siri led to rollover

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A semitrailer driver told police she had a sneezing fit while talking to her phone before her truck rolled and closed an interstate lane for eight hours Sunday.

The driver was heading southbound in a construction zone on I-65 in Lake County near the Crown Point exit when she began sneezing while trying to talk to Siri on her iPhone, according to an Indiana State Police news release.

When she looked up and realized she was about to hit the construction barrels, she swerved sharply, which caused the tanker truck to roll.

The contents of the tanker had to be off-loaded to another truck before officials could right the truck. The lane was closed for eight hours.

The driver, who was cited for unsafe lane movement, was uninjured.

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