'Significant' delays on the QEW after truck bursts into flames near Hamilton
Drivers on the Queen Elizabeth Way should expect delays after a transport truck burst into flames causing a fuel leak at the base of the Burlington Skyway Tuesday.
According to the Ontario Provincial Police, a tractor-trailer caught on fire after colliding with a concrete wall just after 10 a.m. near Eastport Drive. No injuries were reported.
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Leaking fuel breached the truck's insulation, police said, which resulted in a more complicated clean-up effort.
“They are taking the insulation off the trailer piece by piece,” OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday afternoon.
“They’re dousing it with water to make sure that it's not going to reignite and that will take some time.”
Both Niagara- and Toronto-bound traffic have been reduced to two lanes on the Hamilton side of the skyway.
“Please try and get off [the QEW] before the congestion because once you’re there, it will be a significant delay to get through,” he said.
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