200 gallons of fuel spilled during Dauphin County tractor-trailer crash; DEP notified

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Hundreds of gallons of fuel spilled from a tractor-trailer that crashed earlier this week on I-283 in Dauphin County.

First responders, including the Dauphin County Hazardous Materials Response Team (DCHMRT), were called to the crash Monday, just a mile north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, near Harrisburg International Airport.

A 511PA camera showed a tractor-trailer had careened off the side of the highway through a barrier and into an opposite lane before coming to a stop.

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The vehicle’s saddle tank, containing about 200 gallons of fuel, was ruptured, DCHMRT wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday. Photos posted on social media show the tractor-trailer’s cab partially on top of a guardrail…

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