Halls, TN (WOKI) A truck driver is trapped for over 40 minutes after a crash early Monday morning in Halls.

Officials with Rural Metro Fire Department say crews were called to Maynardville Highway at East Emory Road in North Knox County just before 6:00 a.m. where they found a box truck had collided with the rear end of a tractor trailer.

Rural Metro reports the driver of the box truck was heavily entrapped in the vehicle and that multiple crews worked for 45 minutes to free the victim.

He was transported to the trauma center with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.