Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 31, 1990 AIS

“ACCIDENT SHOWS NEED FOR TRUCK ROUTE, OFFICIAL SAYS”

The Terrace Fire Department
attended. the scene of a fuel
tanker that went off the road at
the south end of the Sande Over-
pass at 8:53 a.m. on Saturday
morning, but the tractor-trailer

-indicates the need for a truck

town core. He says that there

unit was put. back on. the rdad .

-without incident and fire sér-

vices were not required. There.

were no injuries and the tractor-

trailer unit was undamaged as a

result of the accident. According
to. Terrace ‘RCMP, roads were
slippery at the time.of the acci-
dent and no charges were filed
against the driver of the truck.

"Fire chief Cliff Best says his
department responded: with
foam, ‘fire extinguishers, a
pumper unit and 14 firefighters

— eight at the scene and another,

six on call:at the fire hall. He
says they remained at the scene
for four hours while over 50,000
liters of jet fuel and gasoline
were pumped from the tanker
before it was towed back onto
the road. Best says this is the sec-

ond fuel truck to leave the road

on the same corner. About seven
years ago, he says, a tanker went
off the road and its inflammable
cargo leaked onto the roadway,

flowing down Tetrault ‘St. to- |

wards Mills Memorial Hospital.

The fuel. was contained by dig-
ging a hole beside Tetrault and

pumping the fuel from the hole

iy

when a second tanker arrived at

the scene.

Terrace emergency. ‘coordina-
tor Ray Rank says that from a
disaster prevention point of

‘years and two of these: resulted.

view, this most.recent accident in death. “It’s a hazard that

everyone is aware of,’’ says
Tank. ‘‘But finding a remedy is
a slow process.”’ A proposal by
city council calis for Hwy. 16 to
be redirected down Keith Ave.

route that bypasses the down-

have been at. least six major
trucking accidents on the Sande
Overpass route in the past seven

to Kenney, Braun: or Frank.
streets and'across a second over-"

resulted in extensive smoke and
fire damage to a- private

The only other incident residence. Best. says the fire
reported by Terrace and Thorn- started in a clothes hamper or
hill fire departments in the past ~ waste basket in a washroom of a
‘week. occurred in Terrace at duplex and burned up the wall -
44:38 a.m. Sunday morning, A into the attic. Smoking materials
fire in the 4700 ) block Hamer are the suspected cz cause.

pass to connect with Hwy. 16
west.

te . . Lies -

‘Untike a tanker that went off the road at the south end of -

Sande Overpass a few years ago, this one-didn'’t spill a
drop. Its cargo of aviation fuel and gasoline was pumped

back onto the road. Terrace RCMP say the accident was
due to Icy road conditions but others say this is just one
more incident that demonstrates the need for a truck route
in Terrace.

into empty tankers before the truck was towed undamaged

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