An accident and oil spill caused traffic delays Monday morning in east Richmond, briefly shutting traffic in both directions.
The collision occurred around 7:30 a.m. involving a tandem dump truck, a pickup truck and a TransLink bus on Westminster Highway just west of the Westminster overpass.
10:09 - #RichmondBC - Crews continue to investigate a collision involving a dump truck along Westminster Hwy just west of the #BCHwy91 overpass. Westbound traffic remains blocked on Westminster Hwy until further notice
— NEWS 1130 Traffic (@NEWS1130Traffic) January 6, 2020
According to several posts on Twitter, the accident involved an oil spill that caused westbound traffic at Westminster Highway and Fraserwood Place and the eastbound Westminster off-ramp from Highway 91 to be closed until 12:30 p.m.
CLEAR - EB Westminster off ramp to #BCHwy91 now reopened after oil spill has been cleaned up.#RichmondBC
— Drive BC (@DriveBC) January 6, 2020
Driver of accident was out side smoking near crash while diesel spewing from dump truck pic.twitter.com/RUgvAsaKR8
— Me (@solgetta) January 6, 2020
The area was cleaned up by Mainroad Contracting.
