A five-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer shut down northbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Statesville for an hour Wednesday morning. Two people were injured in the crash.

Video taken from an uninvolved truck and provided by the N.C. Highway Patrol shows the tractor trailer barreling into a line of cars, causing a chain reaction.

An earlier, smaller wreck near the 49A exit backed up traffic, and the tractor trailer slammed into four cars that were stopped, according to Trooper D.J. Maffucci. The incident occurred shortly before 10:30 a.m.

“It’s lucky no one was killed,” Maffucci said.

The truck driver, Edward Long of Florida, driving for Stingray Logistics, hit a Ford SUV driven by Roy Belyea of Indian Trail, Maffucci said. The Ford then struck two Nissan vehicles and the truck hit a Toyota passenger car.

Belyea and his wife were taken to a hospital by Iredell EMS for minor injuries, and Belyea is undergoing further testing to see if he sustained any internal injuries, Maffucci said.

The southbound lanes were temporarily closed as emergency personnel responded to the scene, but were reopened quickly. The northbound lanes were reopened just before 11:30 a.m.