Update 5:48 p.m.:
The driver of the tractor-trailer truck that flipped on its side Wednesday morning was pinned inside the cab of the truck and had to be extracted by firefighters, according to the Norwalk Fire Department.
Norwalk Deputy Fire Chief Gino Gatto said in a news release that the driver's injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, as Connecticut state police have also stated.
Neither saddle tank on the truck was punctured or leaking, but there was "a large hydraulic [fluid] and oil spill around and under the cab" of the overturned vehicle, according to Gatto.
The highway was opened and cleared of all debris by about 2:30 p.m., Gatto said.
Backups on either side of the highway continued for many miles and for hours, with drivers in the northbound lanes rubbernecking to get a look at the unusual sight.
Update 5:20 p.m.:
Harry Myers, 57, of Avonmore, PA, driver of the tractor-trailer that started the accident on Interstate 95 in Norwalk this morning, was taken to Norwalk Hospital with "non-life-threatening injuries," according to a state police spokeswoman.
No other injuries were reported in the accident, which occurred at roughly 10:30 a.m., said Master Sgt. Donna Tadiello, a spokeswoman for Connecticut State Police.
Tadiello gave this account of what happened:
The hydraulic pump that dumps material from the truck began lifting as a result of mechanical error sometime before the truck passed under the Scribner Avenue overpass on the southbound center lane of I-95.
That caused the raised part of the truck to strike the underside of the bridge. The vehicle then went out of control, eventually landing on its left side hundreds of feet further in the southbound lanes and dumping scrap metal on the roadside.
State police concluded that the truck was raised up because of an unforseeable mechanical problem, and no ticket or other law enforcement action was taken against Myers.
When the truck overturned, debris was flung out onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 and hit at least two vehicles, each driven by men from Stamford: Clement Prawl, 50, and Mark Gajda, 27, neither of whom was injured.
Connecticut Department of Transportation inspectors were called in to confirm the integrity of the Scribner Avenue bridge, which remained open.
Update 2:44 p.m.:
Interstate 95 southbound lanes in Norwalk just opened back up about 20 minutes ago, according to state police at the Troop G Barracks.
Update, 1:12 p.m.:
A tractor-trailer truck driver was injured in a late morning accident on Interstate 95, just past the southbound lanes' Exit 14 late Wednesday morning.
Traffic from the still-closed southbound lanes has spilled over onto U.S. Route 1 (Connecticut Avenue) in Norwalk.
"Route 1 is -- oh, man! -- if you know your way around Norwalk, don't go up Route 1," said Joe Seaman, owner of a scrap metal company that was hauling away the scrap contents of the truck that had spilled on the roadway.
The truck, carrying pieces of chrome-plated metal, it seems had started rising -- apparently by accident -- at some point before it went under the Scribner Street bridge, Seaman said.
He pointed out the raised piston on the truck just after the vehicle had been uprighted.
Original article:
Traffic is stopped southbound on Interstate 95 just past Exit 14 and backed up for miles behind after a truck turned on its side, its contents spilled over the left lane. Northbound traffic is also stalled as far back as Exit 12 in Darien due to rubbernecking.
There are reports of someone trapped inside a vehicle.
Patch will have more information as it becomes available.
The driver of the tractor-trailer truck that flipped on its side Wednesday morning was pinned inside the cab of the truck and had to be extracted by firefighters, according to the Norwalk Fire Department.
Norwalk Deputy Fire Chief Gino Gatto said in a news release that the driver's injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, as Connecticut state police have also stated.
Neither saddle tank on the truck was punctured or leaking, but there was "a large hydraulic [fluid] and oil spill around and under the cab" of the overturned vehicle, according to Gatto.
The highway was opened and cleared of all debris by about 2:30 p.m., Gatto said.
Backups on either side of the highway continued for many miles and for hours, with drivers in the northbound lanes rubbernecking to get a look at the unusual sight.
Update 5:20 p.m.:
Harry Myers, 57, of Avonmore, PA, driver of the tractor-trailer that started the accident on Interstate 95 in Norwalk this morning, was taken to Norwalk Hospital with "non-life-threatening injuries," according to a state police spokeswoman.
No other injuries were reported in the accident, which occurred at roughly 10:30 a.m., said Master Sgt. Donna Tadiello, a spokeswoman for Connecticut State Police.
Tadiello gave this account of what happened:
The hydraulic pump that dumps material from the truck began lifting as a result of mechanical error sometime before the truck passed under the Scribner Avenue overpass on the southbound center lane of I-95.
That caused the raised part of the truck to strike the underside of the bridge. The vehicle then went out of control, eventually landing on its left side hundreds of feet further in the southbound lanes and dumping scrap metal on the roadside.
State police concluded that the truck was raised up because of an unforseeable mechanical problem, and no ticket or other law enforcement action was taken against Myers.
When the truck overturned, debris was flung out onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 and hit at least two vehicles, each driven by men from Stamford: Clement Prawl, 50, and Mark Gajda, 27, neither of whom was injured.
Connecticut Department of Transportation inspectors were called in to confirm the integrity of the Scribner Avenue bridge, which remained open.
Update 2:44 p.m.:
Interstate 95 southbound lanes in Norwalk just opened back up about 20 minutes ago, according to state police at the Troop G Barracks.
Update, 1:12 p.m.:
A tractor-trailer truck driver was injured in a late morning accident on Interstate 95, just past the southbound lanes' Exit 14 late Wednesday morning.
Traffic from the still-closed southbound lanes has spilled over onto U.S. Route 1 (Connecticut Avenue) in Norwalk.
"Route 1 is -- oh, man! -- if you know your way around Norwalk, don't go up Route 1," said Joe Seaman, owner of a scrap metal company that was hauling away the scrap contents of the truck that had spilled on the roadway.
The truck, carrying pieces of chrome-plated metal, it seems had started rising -- apparently by accident -- at some point before it went under the Scribner Street bridge, Seaman said.
He pointed out the raised piston on the truck just after the vehicle had been uprighted.
Original article:
Traffic is stopped southbound on Interstate 95 just past Exit 14 and backed up for miles behind after a truck turned on its side, its contents spilled over the left lane. Northbound traffic is also stalled as far back as Exit 12 in Darien due to rubbernecking.
There are reports of someone trapped inside a vehicle.
Patch will have more information as it becomes available.
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