Baltimore , MD : Two persons minorly injured in Crash after tanker truck overturned and hundreds of gallons of fuel spewed across the roadway on Tuesday , March 10th 2015

Traffic on a large stretch of Interstate 95 — one of Maryland's busiest arteries — was brought to a standstill for several hours on Tuesday after a morning crash left a tanker truck overturned and hundreds of gallons of fuel spewed across the roadway.

The incident, which occurred in the highway's southbound lanes about 10:25 a.m., closed the highway in both directions and caused miles-long backups.

The final two southbound lanes didn't reopen until nearly 7 p.m. Two other lanes had opened a few hours earlier, with the northbound lanes opening prior to that.

According to Maryland State Police, the accident involved the truck and three other vehicles.

One driver, Christopher W. Rhodes, 23, of the 9600 block of Coronet Court in Laurel, has been charged with following too closely, unsafe lane change, failure to control speed to avoid a collision, and reckless driving contributing to a collision, police said.

The driver of the tanker truck, identified as William P. Gorman, 32, of the 4000 block of Ridge Road in Westminster, attempted to avoid both cars but struck the rear of the Focus and overturned, police said.

As it overturned, the truck "side swiped" a Nissan Altima driven by Ryan S. Keyser, 24, of the 10900 block of Baskerville Road in Reisterstown.







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I-95 reopens after tanker crash, fuel clean-up cause massive delays through Maryland