Minor injuries in mini-van dump truck collision

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No one was seriously injured in the mini-van-dump truck collision on Route 103 this morning. According to police, at 8 a.m. Thursday, a mini-van traveling north toward Chester crossed the center line and collided head-on with the southbound dump truck, owned by the Town of Chester, in front of the Chester-Andover Family Center.

The accident closed the road from Pleasant Street to the State Highway Department garage in Rockingham for three hours. Here’s our earlier report.

Three people in the mini-van suffered minor injuries, according to Chester Police, and

were treated at the scene by Chester and Gold Cross ambulance services.

Police say that the accident apparently folded under the dump truck’s driver-side front wheel, forcing the passenger’s side front wheel to also fold under.

About 50 gallons of diesel fuel poured from a ruptured tank on the truck, creating a Hazmat incident that brought out fire crews from Chester and Proctorsville to contain then clean up the spill. Crews dug a 50-foot-long containment trench at the edge of the road, filling it with booms to prevent

runoff from getting into the Williams River, police said.

Chester Highway Superintendent Graham Kennedy said the town dump truck was totaled. He said the truck had doubled as a snow plow. The town will now be down one dump truck despite the fact that it will soon be taking possession of new one, which was ordered about six months ago and cost about $130,000, Kennedy added.