MIDVALE, Utah, Oct. 5, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — Cleanup and side street traffic jams continued until the early evening Wednesday after a semi carrying ammonium nitrate rolled potentially forcing closure of Interstate 15 for several hours.
Southbound I-15 lanes reopened by about 3 p.m. and northbound lanes opened just before 5 p.m., when the tanker had been safely removed.
Marissa Villaseñor, spokeswoman for Utah Highway Patrol, said the multi-vehicle crash at approximately 9:15 a.m. involved a truck trailer, two vehicles, and a semi hauling ammonium nitrate, which is a combustible and can be explosive. Troopers said the crash was caused after a small trailer attached to a pickup truck came loose.
The second trailer attached to the semi hauling the ammonium nitrate overturned, but did not leak.
No one was injured in the crash.
The closure didn’t bring all bad news. South Jordan paramedic Josh Brown delivered a baby in the back of ambulance 61 Wednesday at around noon on the freeway, the City of South Jordan tweeted.
Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information becomes available.
