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D’IBERVILLE — Traffic slowed on Interstate 10 on Monday afternoon following a wreck involving a sewer pumper truck and two cars, police said.
Four were taken to the hospital, but they didn’t appear to have life-threatening injuries in the crash, which happened about 2:45 p.m. about a half-mile east of Interstate 110 on I-10, D’Iberville police said.
One lane of westbound traffic was open while the scene was being cleaned up. The eastbound lanes were open, but traffic was slowed there because work started Monday on a Mississippi Department of Transportation I-10 widening project, which is expected to cause some congestion during the upgrades.
Police said the pumper truck was eastbound and it crossed the median and struck the two cars, which were both westbound. An accident reconstruction was being performed at the crash site Monday afternoon, D’Iberville police said.
Earl Etheridge, on-site coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, said diesel fuel from the truck’s tank, as well as motor oil and other automotive fluids, were cleaned up at the crash site. There was no sewage in the truck at the time of the crash, Etheridge said. He doesn’t anticipate any lingering environmental problems.
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