Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Authorities had to clean up a diesle spill after a car accident at Meadowbrook Road.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
A motor vehicle accident involving two vehicles has closed a section of Swede Road at Meadowbrook Road in East Norriton. Both parties suffered minor injuries but refused medical attention. One of the vehicles, a blue Ford F-150 pickup truck, had a 5-gallon jug of diesel fuel in its bed, which ruptured and spilled its contents on the road surface. Crews are working to clean up the fuel. Traffic is being turned away several hundred feet up the road in both directions as responders clean up the accident debris. We'll update this story as additional information becomes available.
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Swede Rd & Meadowbrook Rd, Norristown, PA
Crash closes both lanes of road, July 31, 2012
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
T&D Trucking, the New Jersey-based company that owns the waste truck, was contracting for a Philadelphia company when the accident occurred.
The truck that lost its brakes and crashed through the intersection at Main and Markley streets on Monday, July 2, was subcontracting for a Philadelphia-based company, hauling paper from a nearby J.P. Mascaro & Sons facility, according to the company's owner and other sources. Information about T&D Trucking Disposal Logistics, Inc., the New Jersey-based company that owns that truck, was initially scarce. Only one business listing for the company could be found, listing the address as 2 Mississippi Trail in Turnersville, N.J. – a private residence. Inquiries made to local, county and state officials could not verify a business licensed at that address. Eventually an official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) …
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W Main St & Markley St, Norristown, PA
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Details about the New Jersey company that owns the truck are scarce and efforts to locate them are, so far, unsuccessful.
The Norristown Police Department has released the report on the July 2 accident in which a truck crashed through the intersection of Main and Markley streets and ended up on the SEPTA tracks, snarling traffic and train service for hours. According to police, shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday, July 2, a municipal waste tractor trailer, registered to a New Jersey trucking company and being driven by a Philadelphia man, was traveling north on 202 from King of Prussia when he approached the intersection at Main and Markley and tried to stop for a steady red light. The driver reportedly discovered his brakes did not work and passed through the intersection against the light, striking a silver 2004 Volkswagon Passat passing through the …
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W Main St & Markley St, Norristown, PA
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Monday, July 2, 2012
SEPTA service at the Main and Elm Street stations was shut down today for a municipal waste truck that crashed onto the tracks.
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Monday, July 2, 2012
According to The Times Herald, workers managed to successfully remove the truck that had crashed onto the SEPTA tracks at Main & Markley this afternoon. SEPTA service to those stations reportedly resumed around 7:30 p.m. --- Original Story A municipal waste hauling truck crashed into a number of other vehicles at a SEPTA grade crossing in Norristown early Monday afternoon, shutting down SEPTA service and snarling traffic in the downtown area. Times Herald editor Stan Huskey reported on Twitter that the driver told police his brakes had failed and that a diesel fuel spill was kept out of the Stony Creek by a fire crew. Police at the scene said the waste truck was not operated by J.P. Mascaro. They declined to comment on whether anyone had …
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Markley St & W Main St, Norristown, PA
Waste truck crashes on SEPTA tracks
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James Myers
5:02 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
They do have the info for the driver, but he's not returning phone calls. Not sure how deep the police are getting into the investigation. It may just be a civil matter now if the driver isn't charged with anything. I haven't been able to talk with any of the officers involved in the investigation or the chief about it yet. I did manage to finally track down the owner of the truck and interview … more ›