[Scan-DC] Serious crash Montgomery County

[Steve]

Actually, they died for that delivery 😃

> On Jun 12, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Rick Bestany <rbestany at allegiansystems.com> wrote:
> 
> People were dying for that delivery. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Ed Tobias" <edtobias at comcast.net> 
> To: "Bruce Harper" <brucebharper at gmail.com>, "Scan DC" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:00:28 AM 
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Serious crash Montgomery County 
> 
> A tanker full of embalming fluid? Gives new meaning to the old song "Dead 
> Man's Curve." 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Bruce Harper 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 8:46 AM 
> To: Scan DC 
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Serious crash Montgomery County 
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Ed wrote: 
>> 
>> What's a tractor trailer doing on the Clara Barton?
> 
> Not to cast aspersions on all truck drivers, but some of them aren't 
> the sharpest crayons in the box. We just had an incident in Roanoke 
> yesterday because a truck driver ignored the warning signs. A tanker 
> truck carrying 4,800 gallons of embalming fluid took a steep, winding 
> mountain road out of Roanoke (VA 116), lost control, and rolled over 
> an embankment, spilling the hazardous material and causing an 
> evacuation of nearby residents. 
> 
> From the Roanoke Times article: 
> 
> "That section of Jae Valley Road is a notorious trouble spot for 
> tractor-trailers because of its mountain curves and steepness. In 
> 2010, the Commonwealth Transportation Board voted to ban trucks longer 
> than 28 feet from traveling through the area after a series of wrecks, 
> including a farm vehicle that spilled a load of cattle, killing 59 
> animals. 
> 
> The road is marked with signs telling truck drivers with vehicles over 
> 28 feet not to use it to pass through the area. Trucks making 
> deliveries to that stretch of road are still permitted. 
> 
> County spokeswoman Amy Whittaker said the driver, David H. Bennett, 
> 61, of Conway, South Carolina, was charged with failure to obey a 
> highway sign and failure to maintain control. He was driving a 2001 
> Freightliner tractor with a tanker trailer attached, she said." 
> 
> The whole story is here: http://tinyurl.com/ldoaazz 
> 
> Bruce in Blacksburg 
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