HOUSTON METRO
Tanker crash spills gasoline on freeway
08:15 AM CST on Thursday, February 9, 2006
A tanker crash on the North Freeway near Rankin Road spilled 9,000 gallons of gasoline Thursday morning. KHOU-TV The tanker spilled about 9,000 gallons of gasoline. The massive cleanup effort went until about 8 a.m. Thursday morning as crews pumped thousands of gallons of gasoline from the crushed tanker. The tanker rashed into the side of the highway around 1 a.m, and there is some disagreement as to how the accident happened. According to police, the driver was coming down the highway and another car was trying to cut him off. He steered to the side of the road and crashed. But many witnesses who were near the driver when the crash happened told a different story. “We have a couple of witnesses that was driving pretty close beside him and they said when they looked over it looked like to them that he was asleep at the wheel,” HPD Officer Michael Wick said. No one was injured in the accident. 
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