Area 12   I 64 MVA  8/5/2008
   
   
Eyewitness News  
  Traffic was shut down Tuesday afternoon and into the evening on the both sides of the West Virginia Turnpike after two major accidents occurred within eight miles of each other, according to a Kanawha County 911 dispatcher. HazMat teams were still cleaning up a chemical spill late Tuesday after a tractor trailer carrying two trailers overturned about 2:05 p.m. in the Interstate 77 southbound lanes near the Chelyan exit, the dispatcher said. One of the trailers was carrying a powdered material, amoric-polyamcrilimide, and the second was carrying pallets of Xylene, a flammable liquid, according to a 911 center news release. The accident resulted in one fatality, but the name of the deceased has not been released. The accident sent pieces of metal crashing onto the smaller road running along the interstate, the dispatcher said. The second accident happened in the northbound lanes of Interstate 77 near the Paint Creek exit about 3:45 p.m., he said. A tractor trailer and a car collided, flipping the car, he said.