FOLLOWUP: West Marginal Way fully reopens after post-tanker-crash cleanup

That image is from the traffic cam on West Marginal at Spokane/Chelan/Delridge; SDOT says it is now open again, more than 24 hours after a tipped tanker truck was removed and crews started removing spilled gasoline from the drainage system (as explained here). We’re following up with Seattle Public Utilities to see if there’s any new info, but wanted to let you know that the traffic backups should now ease. Meantime, the tanker’s owner, Coleman Oil, has posted a statement in the comment thread following our original coverage of the Wednesday night incident.

6 Replies to "FOLLOWUP: West Marginal Way fully reopens after post-tanker-crash cleanup"

  • Jort August 3, 2018 (10:57 pm)

    In the corporate-speak “statement” from Coleman Oil, they said: “During the late evening of August 1, 2018 a Coleman Oil tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned on a surface street …”     Well, that’s strange. Did the truck just “overturn” itself? How does that happen?  I’m confused. Is this something we should expect from gasoline trucks now? Spontaneous overturnings?

    • Guy Olson August 4, 2018 (12:52 pm)

      They are environmental stewards though

  • Guy Olson August 4, 2018 (12:49 pm)

    The gasoline transporting company said one their core values is “environmental stewardship”…..ahahaha!!!!

  • waikikigirl August 4, 2018 (2:07 pm)

    OMG get over this Jort it was an accident, yes a very bad environmental one but lets hope the company that owned the tanker learned from this and also re-trains their drivers from this experience that happened.As for your comment” I’m confused. Is this something we should expect from gasoline trucks now? Spontaneous overturnings?”  again OMG get over it.

  • 1994 August 5, 2018 (12:59 pm)

    But thank goodness the human driving it, or the helpful helper human who got the driver out,  were not injured! Can we remember the humans in this unfortunate event? According to Jort everyone who drives a vehicle is an ecological terrorist -see their comment on the prior post about the clean up.  May you never need an ambulance ride Jort nor any other type of emergency response. 

  • Jort August 6, 2018 (10:38 am)

    The United States has one of the highest Per capita greenhouse gas emissions of any major country (after Canada), and the largest driver of CO2 emissions is transportation. 88 percent of transportation-related carbon emissions come from personal automobiles and trucks.      If America wants to do something about global warming, it needs to directly target our toxic automobile culture.   Seattle claims to prioritize harm reduction in global warming. But we are a major U.S. city, and we are not taking enough steps to reduce vehicle miles traveled. That’s why so, so many Seattle residents are ACTUALLY climate hypocrites. Because they don’t want to fess up to the fact that they, PERSONALLY, are responsible for warming the planet.

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