A three-vehicle accident that backed up traffic along eastbound Interstate 80 in Liberty Township Monday night sent one person to the hospital.

It happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. about two miles past the Belmont Avenue interchange.

Troopers say a minivan operated by 61-year-old Gideon Itenberg of Kew Gardens, NY veered into an SUV traveling in the same direction, then struck a guardrail, and was then struck by a semi-tractor trailer.

The minivan was heavily damaged.  The semi landed in the median.

Itenberg was taken to Mercy Hospital in Youngstown with life-threatening injuries.

Neither the driver of the semi or the SUV were seriously injured.

The patrol is still investigating.