Several lanes of the Capital Beltway were blocked for hours after a tractor-trailer truck hit two jersey barriers and leaked fuel Monday afternoon.
The truck was on the Outer Loop a bit after noon when it hit both barriers just before what Dave Dildine in the WTOP Traffic Center called “the big curve” — where the Beltway passes over Interstate 270. The road reopened a little before 4:30 p.m., but delays persisted, Dildine said.
Debris from the crash fell onto I-270, where lanes were closed for a while and a few damaged vehicles were reported.
On the Beltway, Pete Piringer, of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said at about 3:45 p.m. that the truck was being hooked up to be towed away, and sand trucks were ready to treat the road. The road reopened just before 4:30.
The driver of the truck was taken to a hospital with injuries that were described as not life-threatening.
UPDATE: Right lane gets by the disabled tractor trailer. Expect delays from Silver Spring #mdtraffic https://t.co/VzSJf5n4dN
— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) September 30, 2019
But that wasn’t the only problem on the Beltway: Lanes were blocked just before Connecticut Avenue for another tractor-trailer crash, in which several people were hurt. The road was reopened a bit before 5 p.m.
Update – Outerloop beltway I495 just before Connecticut Avenue, some lanes blocked, @MCFRS_EMIHS transporting several patients w/ NLT injuries https://t.co/OZxIN4sF0i
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 30, 2019
