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NEARBY: Two Badly Hurt After Serious Tanker Truck Crash, Fire In Bensalem

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Tom Sofield
The tanker truck on fire.
Credit: Submitted

Two people were critically hurt after a fuel tanker truck crashed and caught fire Thursday morning.

The two people who were injured were the driver and the passenger in the tanker truck that wrecked and caught fire on the Woodhaven Road ramp that leads to I-95 north. Traffic in both directions on the interstate was tied up due to the crash, according to 6abc and reports from the scene.

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Firefighters were called to the crash around 10:15 a.m. Crews from Bensalem, Philadelphia, and the Levittown area rushed to the scene.

As the fire raged, additional crews were called, including tanker trucks from as far away as Wrightstown and Upper Makefield. The Bucks County Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Team and the response team from Dow Chemical’s Bristol facility also responded.

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The blaze was placed under control shortly before noon, but traffic remained jammed in the area as of 12:15 p.m.

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.