{"id":110134,"date":"2026-06-17T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/110134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:34:13","slug":"truck-uprighted-after-causing-hazardous-spill-in-duplin-county-highway-24-still-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/110134\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck uprighted after causing hazardous spill in Duplin County; Highway 24 still shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WARSAW, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Crews are working to reopen busy roads in Duplin County after a tanker carrying a hazardous chemical overturned Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In an update around 5 a.m. today, NC Emergency Management said the tanker was uprighted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials shared in that update that crews with the Highway Patrol and DOT were working to reopen I-40 West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Highway 24 remains closed so crews can finish offloading the product to another tanker truck, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/DriveNC.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/DriveNC.gov\" target=\"_blank\">DriveNC.gov<\/a> shows I-40 is back open as of 6 a.m., but the ramp from I-40 West to Highway 24 is still closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both roads were shut down Tuesday after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/17\/highway-24-i-40-westbound-remain-shut-down-hazmat-crews-work-clean-up-nitrobenzene-spill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/17\/highway-24-i-40-westbound-remain-shut-down-hazmat-crews-work-clean-up-nitrobenzene-spill\/\">tanker carrying nitrobenzene <\/a>overturned in Warsaw near the I-40 interchange around 11:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver had minor injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hazmat crews spent hours working to monitor and clean up the chemical. Officials said the chemical is not considered an immediate threat to the public, and a perimeter around the tanker was set up. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Crews are working to reopen busy roads in Duplin County after a tanker carrying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[12155,55473,182,55474,181],"class_list":["post-110134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-duplin-county","tag-hazmat-spill","tag-poland","tag-roads-closed","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116765711891784496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}