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DEARBORN COUNTY, IN – A semi truck crashed Friday morning, September 3, spilling several gallons of a hazardous material next to a highway in Dearborn County, Indiana. The single truck incident happened near the border between Indiana and Ohio and for a time shut down all lanes on Interstate 74. The truck accident area is in the southeast section of the state, about 26 miles west of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The truck accident occurred as the semi tanker moved through a construction zone near mile marker 159 on the interstate, close to the St. Peter overpass.

On Friday morning at about 7:30 a.m., 29 year old truck driver Andrzej Grela of Chicago, Illinois was driving a semi tanker truck east on Interstate 74 in Dearborn County, Indiana. The tanker truck was loaded with about 4,000 gallons of Phthalic Anhydride Molten, which is used to make polyester resins and dyes. It is a flammable material that reacts with water and can be potentially toxic if inhaled. The cargo of Phthalic Anhydride Molten was at a temperature of about 300 degrees which is normal when the material is being transported. ... Read Full Story

NEWBURY, OH – At about 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, June 19, 52 year old Anthony Ward of Garfield Heights, Ohio was driving a 2007 Freightliner Columbia pulling a 2003 Heil gas tanker truck north on OH State Route 44 near the township of Newbury. The truck was carrying about 8,500 gallons of gasoline in its tanker. The truck had the logo of Source One Transportation, a gas transport company based in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.

Local emergency personnel responded to the scene of the tanker truck accident and worked more than three hours to extricate the driver from his rig.

As the truck driver approached the juncture of SR 44 and Music Street he reportedly lost control of his rig as he attempted to negotiate a curve on the highway. The tanker truck went off balance and then flipped over onto its side. When the semi truck overturned it trapped the truck driver inside of his cab. ... Read Full Story

MONTPELIER, OH – A Ohio Highway Patrol trooper was injured Thursday morning, April 29, 2010, when he was hit by a FedEx semi truck in Williams County, OH. The truck accident happened while the trooper was conducting a traffic stop on the Ohio Turnpike near the city of Montpelier. The area is about 13 miles east of the Indiana border in the far northwest corner of the state, 60 miles west of Toledo, OH and 55 miles northeast of Fort Wayne, IN.

The FedEx truck first hit the trooper’s vehicle, and then the cruiser plowed into the minivan, hitting Trooper Alexander and throwing him about 70 feet over the highway guardrail.

On Thursday morning Trooper Tommy Alexander was working on the Ohio Turnpike during the morning commute. Trooper Alexander is 41 years old from Springfield Township and has been with the Ohio Highway Patrol since 1993. ... Read Full Story

NEW CONCORD OH – On Monday April 5 at about 8:00 a.m. a semi truck carrying nine vehicles flipped over on Interstate 70 just west of the State Route 83 exit in New Concord Ohio.

Jeff Jadwin, Deputy Director of the EMA next to the twisted wreckage of a semi truck carrying nine vehicles that flipped over on I-70 in Concord, Ohio on Monday.

New Concord is located in the east-central part of the state about 70 miles east of Columbus, about 212 miles southeast of Toledo, about 106 miles south of Akron, about 143 miles west of Dayton, about 141 miles south of Cleveland and about 172 miles northeast of Cincinnati. ... Read Full Story

MIDDLETOWN, OH – Updated Thursday, Sep 16, 20009. This is a follow up to a previous post yesterday. In the Middletown, Ohio semi truck accident that occurred at the intersection of Clinton Street and Manchester Avenue, the man that was killed was 73-year-old passenger Gordon Ondersma, from Middletown. His son, Jerry Ondersma, 39,  also from Middletown, was driving the pickup truck at the time and was injured when the vehicle collided with a semi-truck on Sep 15 at 1:45 pm.

The pickup truck that was involved in the truck accident was a Ford Ranger. It was not an F-150 as was previously reported. Gordon Ondersma was ejected from the pickup truck in that fatal collision.

The semi truck, driven by 39 year old James Flynn, was coming from the Miller Brewing Co., in Trenton, OH on his way to Columbus to pick up another truck (see map below).

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Flynn said he slammed on his brakes to avoid the accident. The semi truck swerved, then struck the pickup, which subsequently flipped over several times then ejected the passenger.

MIDDLETOWN, OH – One man has died in a semi truck accident in Middletown, Ohio when his pick-up truck ran a stop sign and crashed into the semi truck. The Middletown police say that the deceased man was pinned under his pick-up truck and died around 2:15 pm today, Sept. 15. Police are withholding the man’s identity until his family is notified. Paramedics worked on the man for several minutes, before he was put in an ambulance to be transported to the Atrium Medical Center.

Rescue workers place crash victim on gurney before transporting him to local hospital. A second victim died at the scene - Photo by Pat Auckerman

The truck accident occured at the intersection of Clinton Street and Manchester Avenue. Witnesses report that a Ford F-150 was traveling west on Manchester Avenue and failed to stop at the stop sign at Clinton Street. The pick-up truck then collided with a semi-truck that was heading north on Clinton Street. The semi truck driver, James Flynn, said that he saw the pick-up truck coming into the intersection when he swerved to avoid it. But the semi truck collided with the pick-up truck, flipping it over several times.

Firefighters were able to extract a second person from the pick-up truck. They strapped him to a back board with a neck brace and then transported him to Atrium Medical Center at about 2:10 pm.

Flynn reported that he was not injured. He was visibly upset when he was informed that the man had died.

Debris was scattered into the intersection. Among the debris and wreckage were tools that were inside the pick-up truck.

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Toledo, OH Aug 22, 2009  – According to Toledo Police a semi truck driver apparently fell asleep Saturday night while driving northbound on I-75 in north Toledo a few miles south of the Michigan state line.

Witnesses near the scene told police they saw the semi truck swerve into a guardrail, tearing open the truck’s diesel fuel tank and hitting a guardrail before crashing into the concrete median.

There were no life-threatening injuries reported, police said, but the interstate remained closed at the Ottawa River Road exit at 11:25 p.m. while clean-up crews removed the wreckage and used absorbent material to soak up diesel fuel spilled over the roadway.

Traffic was backed up for several miles to the I-280/I-75 northbound interchange and beyond.

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