A tree service truck with failed brakes, a driver who leaped from the cab and landed under his own trailer, 200 gallons of fuel sitting in a crumpled wreck on an embankment, and a bystander who strapped on a life vest and swam across a creek to get to work.
If this sounds like a lot for a Tuesday morning in Wilmington, Delaware, that’s because it was. The incident unfolded around 8:15 a.m. near the Rising Sun Lane bridge over the Brandywine Creek, and by the time it was over, it had consumed the better part of a day, shut down surrounding roads for hours, and called in Delaware Task Force One along with multiple fire departments and tow companies.
The driver, a 27-year-old employee of Jake’s Tree Service out of Chester, Pennsylvania, survived. Barely…