ROUTE 202 ACCIDENT

Acid spill at Welsh and 202 causes HAZMAT incident Thursday afternoon

A 55-galllon drum of acid fell from the cargo of a truck owned by Sabino's Pool Plastering.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

A 55-galllon drum of acid fell from the cargo of a truck owned by Sabino's Pool Plastering.

A two-vehicle accident caused a hazardous materials spill and closed the intersection of Welsh Road and the Route 202 Parkway in Montgomery Township Thursday afternoon.

According to reports from the scene, a silver Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck collided with a Sabino’s Pool Plastering Ford heavy duty truck at the intersection at 1:21 p.m.

The collision caused a 55-gallon drum of acid to spill on the roadway from the truck’s cargo, per reports.

There are no reported injuries.

Montgomery Township Police and Fire Department of Montgomery Township are on scene, along with assistance from Colmar Fire Police and other area companies. Lower Gwynedd Police also assisted with traffic.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at [email protected]. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.