A man is dead, several northeast Ohio roads are closed and diesel has poured into a river after a tanker truck lost control and exploded Saturday morning.
The driver of the truck was heading north on State Route 8 in Macedonia, about 18 miles north of Akron, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. As he attempted to merge on Interstate 271, he lost control and went over the side of a bridge, causing the truck to explode in a burst of flames when it crashed back on State Route 8, the sheriff’s office said.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
“The sheriff’s office said diesel from the tanker got into a nearby river and leaked into Brandywine Falls, a 60-foot waterfall, briefly causing a creek to catch on fire.”
Jesus, I did not have “flaming waterfalls” on my 2024 bingo card…
Having waterways catch on fire is a Cleveland specialty.
Temperatures dancing around freezing, bridges freeze quicker. Wonder if that had something to do with it. I can’t load cnn, so I have no idea if there are any more details than OPs solid synopsis.
Why can’t you load CNN?
One of my blockers triggers cnn to block me back. I’m fine with that tradeoff and can’t really be bothered to figure out which is causing it.
I’m waiting, a little unhopefully, to find out that this is somehow Ohio’s crooked government’s fault.
Of course it did.
