Colombian Truck Crashes, Spills Cocaine

A police officer displays packages of seized cocaine on a freeway south of Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, April 19, 2007. A ton of packed cocaine fell on the road after the truck where it was being transported crashed. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides) (Luis Benavides - AP)

BOGOTA, Colombia -- A truck loaded with cocaine flipped after taking a curve too fast, spilling nearly a ton of the drug across a Colombian highway.

Police said the drugs were hidden in the truck's walls and roof, which ripped open Thursday when the vehicle overturned in Medellin, 155 miles north of the capital, Bogota.

The driver escaped injury but was quickly arrested.

Police said the cocaine was destined for the northern port of Uraba, a major exit point for Colombia's massive drug smuggling industry.