UNION COUNTY, N.C. — Highway 74 in Indian Trail was shut down early Wednesday morning after a “construction-related incident,” according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials told Traffic Team 9’s Mark Taylor that construction crews accidentally cut a fiber optics line sometime around 3 a.m.
[Channel 9 has a crew on the scene and will have updates throughout the morning on Eyewitness News Daybreak.]
Highway 74 was closed between Faith Church Road and Wesley Chapel Stouts Road but authorities reopened the road in both directions around 6 a.m.
It was still unclear what the construction crew was working on when the line was cut.
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