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By Jessica Heffner, Staff Writer Updated 9:54 AM Tuesday, June 30, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — Verity Pkwy. is still closed this morning after an 18-wheeler semi-truck overturned on Verity and Hughes about 7:20 a.m. this morning, Tuesday, June 30, spilling its load of steel coils across the roadway.

As of 9:45 a.m. crews are still working on cleaning up the steel coils that were dumped onto the roadway and the truck’s leaking anti-freeze.

According to Middletown police Officer Kim Robinson, the load wasn’t on the truck properly, causing it to overturn as the driver went around a curve on Verity Pkwy. The driver, Tim Sallie, 45, was uninjured and no other vehicles were involved.

The incident took a large chunk out of the curb on Verity and caused the steel coils, wrapped in plastic with AK Steel Corp.’s logo, to spill across the road. The truck was also leaking anti-freeze. Robinson said it would take at least an hour to clean up the accident and haul off the truck, but so far it has taken more than two.

Sallie said he was going about 30 miles an hour when the cradle of his truck gave way, causing his vehicle to tip sideways “and just pull me over.”

The coils were being taken to Precision Steel, Sallie said. Although he was glad he was okay, he added that the incident “will probably take my job.”

A truck with sand arrived on scene to clean up the anti-freeze around 8 a.m. as well as a tow truck. Vehicles were being redirected onto Hughes and Panama to get around the accident, according to police on scene.

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