Tanker Truck

The Maryland State Highway Administration has postponed the planned closure of Route 1 at Conowingo Dam until Monday, Nov. 14, the agency said Wednesday, citing weather concerns. The SHA had planned to close part of Route 1 at Conowingo Dam all day Thursday in order to resurface and repair highway damage at the intersection of Routes 1 and Route 222 (Rock Spring Road) caused by a fuel tanker truck accident and spill Oct. 26. The same work will now be done Monday because inclement weather was forecast for Thursday, SHA spokesman Charlie Gischlar said.

The Maryland State Highway Administration has postponed the planned closure of Route 1 at Conowingo Dam until Monday, Nov. 14, the agency said Wednesday, citing weather concerns. The SHA had planned to close part of Route 1 at Conowingo Dam all day Thursday in order to resurface and repair highway damage at the intersection of Routes 1 and Route 222 (Rock Spring Road) caused by a fuel tanker truck accident and spill Oct. 26. The same work will now be done Monday because inclement weather was forecast for Thursday, SHA spokesman Charlie Gischlar said.

State police have reopened I-95 northbound in Harford County after a tanker truck fire early Saturday. No one was hurt in the incident, which began about 5 a.m. Saturday near Fallston. Police shut down several northbound lanes, bringing traffic to a halt for much of the morning. The last of the lanes reopened shortly before 3 p.m. - Matthew Hay Brown

A tanker truck containing more than 3,000 gallons of gasoline was recovered in Philadelphia this afternoon, after it was stolen from Kent County earlier this week. Kent County Sheriff John Price said the tanker was found just before 4:30 p.m. by Philadelphia police. It went missing sometime Monday evening or Tuesday morning, officers said. Price said he did not immediately know whether the truck had been drained of the fuel. No suspect has been arrested. The 10-wheel truck was stolen from Alger Oil Inc., a company that services the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Harford County.

An accident Friday morning in Southeast Baltimore left a tanker truck hanging off a bridge, authorities say. The incident happened about 5:30 a.m. in the 6200 block of Pennington Ave. when a utility work truck and tanker truck collided, sending the middle part of the tanker off the roadway, according to police. Authorities believe the tanker was empty and removed it from the Pennington Avenue Drawbridge. Police temporarily closed the bridge at Ordinance Road and Pennington Avenue. Both drivers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, fire officials say. — Brent Jones

A tanker truck carrying 2,600 gallons of diesel fuel overturned about 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon on eastbound U.S. 40 near Contractor's Road in Rosedale, spilling "all or most" of its load, according to Baltimore County fire officials. Motorists were advised to avoid U.S. 40 until further notice. Eastbound U.S. 40 was closed between Contractor's Road and Berk Avenue, and the accident also brought traffic to a standstill in the westbound lanes. About 500 gallons of diesel fuel entered a tributary of Northeast Creek, emergency officials said.

After being hit broadside by another vehicle yesterday, a tanker truck overturned on U.S. 1 above Conowingo Dam and spilled about 100 gallons of liquid fertilizer into the Susquehanna River, state police said.Police said the tanker was northbound and approaching Route 222 near Conowingo about 1: 10 p.m. when it was hit broadside on Route 222.Both drivers were treated at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace and released.Pub Date: 7/08/97

A tanker truck carrying nearly 9,000 gallons of gasoline overturned yesterday in Wagner's Point in southern Baltimore, spilling fuel onto a roadway and into sewer drains and a creek, said a Fire Department spokesman. Battalion Chief Hector Torres said the tanker overturned at Northbridge and Fairfield roads.

A tanker truck leaked an estimated 50 to 100 gallons of a chlorine solution yesterday on the Capital Beltway, prompting state police to shut down a heavily traveled, mile-long stretch of the highway during rush hour as hazardous materials crews secured the truck and cleaned up the spill. The leak was reported to state police about 3:30 p.m. by a Beltway motorist who noticed the solution spewing onto the highway. By the time troopers reached the truck's driver, Curtis Richardson III, 26, of Landover, he had been made aware of the leak by another motorist and stopped on the shoulder of the outer loop near Connecticut Avenue, police said.

A small amount of gasoline and fuel oil leaked from a tanker truck that overturned Wednesday afternoon in a one-vehicle accident along St. Clair Bridge Road near Pylesville.The amount of gasoline and oil that spilled from the tanker was "not significant," said James Terrell, chief of the county's Emergency Operations Department. He did not know the specific amount of material that spilled.The Southern States Inc. tanker was carrying 966 gallons of unleaded gasoline and 1,194 gallons of fuel oil at the time of the 4:50 p.m. accident, Terrell said.

A multi-vehicle crash caused significant delays on Interstate-83 near Cockeysville on Wednesday afternoon, according to the state highway administration and police. A car collided with a Jeep at about 3 p.m., flipped and became wedged underneath a tanker truck, state police Sgt. Douglas Forrester said. A picture from the scene showed a badly damaged car, but police said the driver suffered injuries not considered life-threatening. The accident closed all northbound lanes above Padonia Road for nearly two hours, though the vehicles were moved to the shoulder and traffic began moving again at about 5 p.m., police said.

An accident Friday morning in Southeast Baltimore left a tanker truck hanging off a bridge, authorities say. The incident happened about 5:30 a.m. in the 6200 block of Pennington Ave. when a utility work truck and tanker truck collided, sending the middle part of the tanker off the roadway, according to police. Authorities believe the tanker was empty and removed it from the Pennington Avenue Drawbridge. Police temporarily closed the bridge at Ordinance Road and Pennington Avenue. Both drivers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, fire officials say. — Brent Jones

A tanker truck carrying 2,600 gallons of diesel fuel overturned about 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon on eastbound U.S. 40 near Contractor's Road in Rosedale, spilling "all or most" of its load, according to Baltimore County fire officials. Motorists were advised to avoid U.S. 40 until further notice. Eastbound U.S. 40 was closed between Contractor's Road and Berk Avenue, and the accident also brought traffic to a standstill in the westbound lanes. About 500 gallons of diesel fuel entered a tributary of Northeast Creek, emergency officials said.

State police have reopened I-95 northbound in Harford County after a tanker truck fire early Saturday. No one was hurt in the incident, which began about 5 a.m. Saturday near Fallston. Police shut down several northbound lanes, bringing traffic to a halt for much of the morning. The last of the lanes reopened shortly before 3 p.m. - Matthew Hay Brown

Elderly man dies in fire at Parkville apartment An elderly Parkville man died in an apartment fire Sunday morning, the Baltimore County Fire Department said. Officials withheld the victim's name, pending family notification. According to investigators, fire dispatchers received a call at 10:54 a.m. reporting the smell of smoke at 8401 Nunley Dr., in the Ridge Garden Apartment complex. Firefighters from the Parkville Fire Station found the victim, who was in his 90s, dead in his kitchen and surrounded by smoke, but very little fire.

Baltimore police found a tanker truck they believe was involved in an accident this month that killed a 67-year-old bicyclist at a downtown intersection and have determined that John R. "Jack" Yates, who got caught in the rear wheels of the truck, was at fault in the incident. Yates, a Charles Village resident, was riding southbound behind the truck about 11:30 a.m. Aug. 4 on Maryland Avenue at West Lafayette Avenue, police said. He struck the back of the vehicle and became entangled in its rear wheels as the truck made a right turn onto Lafayette, according to police.

To hear Chuck Gamber tell it, he's not just creating elaborate scenes and symbols on trucks. He's performing a public service. "If a guy's got...an ugly truck, if you can put some art work on it and make it pretty, now people will compliment him, and he'll drive better and he'll be happy with what he's doing," said Gamber, sitting on a stool in his workshop next to a 38-foot antique tanker truck in need of lettering. Gamber is the owner of Jack of Arts, a company that specializes in painting custom images on vehicles.