[ RadSafe ] AZ Accident?

[Sandy Perle]

On 8 May 2006 at 14:53, LNMolino at aol.com wrote:

> Anyone have anymore information on the accident as reported in USA Today  
> (today's paper) regarding what sounds like a WIPP Shipment? I need to get  to of 
> the office and get a copy but I got a call about this and was wondering?
 
Louis,

I found the following, KVOA, Tuscon

SELIGMAN, Ariz. A tractor-trailer carrying low-level radioactive 
items rolled over today on Interstate 40 near this northern Arizona 
community after it rear-ended another vehicle.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the accident wasn't 
threatening public health.

The accident killed 55-year-old Jasper Brown of Missouri. The man he 
was traveling with, 25-year-old Tim Harig of Missouri, was critically 
injured and flown to a nearby hospital. No other injuries were 
reported.

D-P-S says the truck was carrying protective clothing, towels, tools 
and other items used in processing radioactive material.

The items, which contained low-levels of radioactive solid metal 
oxide, was on its way to Madison, were on their way to Madison, 
Pennsylvania to be destroyed.

An eastbound section of the interstate was reopened.

If the vehicle had been carrying radioactive waste, D-P-S says 
authorities would have shut down traffic in both directions.

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