An oil delivery truck that overturned into a ditch just outside of Charlottetown early Monday morning spilled between 400 and 700 litres of heating fuel, provincial environment officials say.
The Winsloe Road was closed to all traffic between Route 250, the Kentyre Road, and Route 220, the Horne Cross Road, in the wake of the single-vehicle accident, the RCMP posted at 6:30 a.m., but has since reopened.
RCMP said the driver was initially trapped in the truck.
“Thankfully, this individual was able to get out with some assistance and did only suffer some minor injuries,” said Cpl. Gavin Moore, the P.E.I. RCMP’s media relations officer. “This truck did go completely upside down, that’s where it rested after going off the road. This is a straight piece of road and it appears that icy road conditions were a major contributing factor to this crash.”
The provincial Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action said it was told about the incident at 7:18 a.m. and had an environmental officer at the site by 7:45 a.m.
“The volume of heating fuel lost into the ditch as a result of the accident is estimated to be 400-700L,” the department said in an email to CBC News Monday afternoon. “The spill was contained and there is no impact to waterways.
“A vac truck was brought to the site to remove the heating fuel… from the ditch.”
