BLACKMAN TWP., MI – A semi-truck driver is amazingly OK after he veered off I-94 and hit a tree, ripping the truck’s cab to pieces, police say.

The man was heading west on I-94, east of Elm Avenue, at about 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, when his truck left the roadway along the north side of the freeway and hit a large tree, Blackman-Leoni Township Public Safety Director Mike Jester said.

The impact ripped the cab of the truck apart, sending the engine block on one side of the tree and the rest of the cab on the other side, torn to pieces and upside down.

The man managed crawl out of the wreckage and was taken to Henry Ford Allegiance Health to be treated for unknown injuries, Jester said.

Westbound I-94 is reduced to one lane while police work the scene and road crews work to remove the wreckage.

The crash is still under investigation.