A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment clean-up site crashed in Columbiana County on Monday.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 1 p.m. on state Route 165 near Waterford Road, just north of East Palestine. Troopers arrived at the scene for a single-vehicle crash involving a tractor with a trailer.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that the commercial vehicle was traveling northbound when it went off of the right side of the roadway, struck a ditch and utility pole, and ultimately overturned,” law enforcement said in a release obtained by local media….