Truck Hauling Corrosive Material Crashes Closing I-95

1 p.m.

All lanes of Interstate 95 are open following the crash.

9:30 a.m. 

STAFFOR

D COUNTY, Va. — It’s been a mess all morning long on Interstate 95 south in Stafford County. It will remain closed at mile post 133 just before Fredericksburg until at least noon today following a HAZMAT spill.

More in a press release from Virginia State Police:

At 5:12 a.m. Friday (May 17), Virginia State Police were called to the scene of a two-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 south of Exit 133/Falmouth in Stafford County. Two southbound tractor-trailers collided with one another. The two tractor-trailers came to a stop on the right shoulder of I-95. Both tractor-trailers are upright and neither driver was injured.

 One of the tractor-trailers is hauling barrels of an organic, corrosive, liquid material. The impact of the crash caused several barrels to fall off the tractor-trailer and land in the right southbound lane. Stafford and Fredericksburg HazMat crews are on scene working to contain and clear the minor leakage from at least one of the damaged barrels.

 The southbound lanes of I-95 are estimated to remain closed until approximately noon Friday.

Crash remains under investigation at this time.

Due to the crash, traffic is being rerouted onto nearby roads, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation:

All southbound traffic is being detoured at Exit 133 to southbound Route 17 Business, and then  onto southbound Route 1. Traffic can return to southbound I-95 at Exit 130/Route 3 or Exit 126/Spotsylvania.  

Due to the additional traffic, heavy congestion is expected on southbound Route 17 Business and southbound Route 1 this morning in the Fredericksburg area.