Spill disrupts traffic
PA Auckland Firemen used soda ash to neutralise spilled nitric acid on Auckland’s Southern Motorway yesterday. Rush hour traffic was disrupted and houses evacuated after containers of the acid fell from a truck at three points along the motorway about 6.15 a.m. Thirty-four of the 20litre polycarbonate containers fell from the truck. Four broke open.
The Fire Service was called to the motorway’s Great South Road onramp, where 25 containers fell. None spilled but one container was found to be cracked, said the control supervisor, Mr Rodney Adamson. As the truck headed south several more containers fell off, one of which broke open. The third trouble spot was just south of the Papatoetoe interchange, where three spilled.
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