| Area 12 I 64 MVA
8/5/2008 |
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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. |
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