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1 dead, 2 hurt in fuel tanker truck’s fiery rollover crash on Gold Star Bridge in Groton, Connecticut
CONNECTICUT — A crash involving a gasoline shipping and delivery truck and a motor vehicle sparked a hearth on a key Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with flames spreading to land on a single facet and officers closing Interstate 95 in both of those instructions through the blaze. Officials reported the truck driver died and other folks were wounded. The wreck happened shortly after 11 a.m. on the southbound aspect of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge carrying the highway around the Thames River involving New London and Groton. The Gold Star in fact comprises two steel truss bridges, one particular for southbound visitors and the other for northbound. The northbound facet…
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Tanker truck hauling heating oil in Maryland erupts in flames after crash
A tanker truck overturned in a fiery wreck in Pikesville, Maryland, Friday morning. (Clifford Gambrill / Neighborhood Information X /TMX) A tanker truck carrying heating oil burst into flames Friday morning adhering to a crash together Interstate 795 in the Baltimore area, sending thick plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. The fiery wreck transpired close to Owings Mills and officers are urging motorists to keep away from the location as “this incident is envisioned to effect traffic for an extended time period.” “Units ended up dispatched just before 6 a.m. to I-795 amongst Owings Mills Boulevard and the Beltway for a motor car crash with hearth. Crews discovered an…
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Guardrail goes up on Rt. 15 after Frederick tanker truck crash
The Maryland Office of Transportation (MDOT) claims the new barriers is a shorter-term alternative to the site visitors issues alongside the busy highway. FREDERICK, Md. — Crews from the Maryland Office of Transportation (MDOT) commenced setting up a guardrail alongside Route 15 in Frederick, Md. Sunday evening right after a tanker truck carrying gasoline exploded alongside Apple Avenue on Mar. 4. MDOT knowledgeable inhabitants throughout a group assembly on Wednesday evening that the new barrier was a limited-term remedy to the ongoing traffic difficulties together the hectic freeway. “Owing to the major mother nature of this crash and the gap left driving by the elimination of the tree, we experimented…
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Driver killed in Maryland tanker truck crash had ties to Hagerstown
The driver who died in a lethal tanker truck crash final weekend in Frederick County was from Smithsburg and formerly lived in Hagerstown. Maryland Point out Police introduced the man’s identity, Ronald Leroy Heiston Jr., 58, of Smithsburg, on Friday. Heiston died pursuing the tanker crash that occurred soon ahead of midday on Saturday, March 4, on U.S. 15 north, about a 50 percent-mile north of Rosemont Avenue in Frederick, Md., in accordance to point out police. The state law enforcement crash group is leading the crash investigation, in accordance to a point out police news launch. Much more police news:Law enforcement: Driver crashes into sheriff’s workplace SUV in front…
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