NEWS

Crash, fuel spill close Seashore Highway

Lucia Blackwell
WIL

A two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck at about 8:10 a.m. Thursday has closed Seashore Highway ( Del. 18), state police say.

State police and emergency personnel are on the scene west of Georgetown.Seashore Highway is closed in both directions in the area of Rum Bridge Road while cleanup operations continue after a diesel fuel tank on the tractor trailer was ruptured in the collision, Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said.

The driver of the pickup truck was transported to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the tractor-trailer driver was not injured.

Commuters are urged to find alternate routes of travel.

Further details will be released as they become available.