This morning near Williamsburg.

I've never driven a tanker so maybe my instinct is wrong. It looks like he came up the ramp and turned left but the truck fell into the curve instead of out. My gut says it should have flopped over the opposite direction...if he did roll from the turn Is it true he'd fall out just like a regular truck rollover?

 

Would love to see what the trailer axles look like close up. Kinda looks like he went left, and it off tracked behind the rail.

 

This is the only place bucks creek crosses a railroad track that I see. That bridge may not be as wide as it looks.
I have no idea why a truck would be on that road. It looks all residential.

 

If that's the road, he probably did not take wide enough turn, and back of the trailer started to overturn in a corner, and because it's smooth bore tank, all that liquid managed to overturn truck...

 

I'm more confused now, not coming up a ramp but rather coming around the corner of a 2 lane road? On the outside? How can he get the back over the rail from there?

 

Oh.
I looked up on Google maps and it doesn't match your picture. I bet he didn't check the delivery very closely on a satellite map and got off near Pleasant View and meant to be in Saxton or vice versa....
But your picture is correct and is listed closed on Google maps....

 

Looks like Schneider is going to get one very expensive cleanup bill.

And one driver might be looking for a new job..
“I laid over a hazmat tanker causing an evacuation of a residential area,who’ll hire me??”

 

OK, I got pretty curious trying to figure out how the driver got on that road in the first place. First, I don't know what version of Google Maps you're using @062 but on mine that location is called Mountain Ash Road.

Buck Creek Road isn't very far at all from there, but I agree, that's got to be the place where he went off the bridge.



Now, if you look around there for chemical plants, the nearest one I can find off I-75 is a Dow plant in Knoxville. (That's an interesting place to get into, by the way, but I digress.) There are a couple of others west of there on I-40, but I'd guess Dow. They definitely make some flammable stuff there.

Regardless of where he got his load, the real question is how the heck he got on that road. I'm assuming he was basically traveling on I-75, or trying to, unless he was making a local delivery somewhere near there. There isn't any exit off of I-75 between Jellico and Williamsburg.



There's a Pilot in Williamsburg. Highway 25 runs near there, and runs between Jellico and Williamsburg. This accident happened just off of Highway 25.

I wonder if somehow he got on Highway 25 by accident after stopping at the Pilot. However it happened, if he was trying to turn around by going onto Mountain Ash Road, his only hope was using the parking lot at the Baptist Church there on the other side of the bridge. Old Mountain Ash Pike goes nowhere -- if you look on Google, you can see that it used to cross the river in a few places, but all the bridges are gone. And if he was planning on taking Buck Creek Road around back to 25, or one of the other roads leading from there, he would have gotten into even deeper trouble.

Best guess? Driver got on the wrong road somehow, his GPS started offering "solutions," and he bit on one. Street View of this road tells me there's no way I'm going to make that turn, but you never know. I've done some dumb things in a truck.

 

Looking at the pics it was placarded 2348 which according to the interwebz is Butyl Acrylates and delivering chemicals its kinda surprising where some of the our customers are located.

 

He did not have a #### space for a turn stuck in that hole corner there. No wonder. Trailer started getting off and being liquid probably way heavier than the entire rig... FLOP! with a twist.

Drivers lost his job for sure, I don't know if schenider will bill him for the whole thing. There isn't anything there. Hes off route.

Oh is this something else.

And TMC wants to broadcast idiot fleet drivers within their system? HA....