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Feb 15, 2008

Trucker Accident Costs * USA - Governor says taxpayers shouldn't pay for

Middlebury,Conn,USA -Newsday -February 15, 2008: -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell says Connecticut taxpayers shouldn't get stuck paying the tab for the response and cleanup of a tractor-trailer crash off Interstate 84 earlier this week... The accident on the Waterbury/Middlebury town line shut down the highway in both directions for more than 14 hours on Tuesday because of a leak from a compressed hydrogen gas canister on the truck. Rell has directed state agencies to recoup the costs. She says taxpayers should not be on the hook because a trucker carrying hazardous and potentially explosive cargo fell asleep at the wheel... A spokeswoman for truck owner Linde Gas of Murray Hill, N.J., says she doesn't know whether the company's insurance carrier will reimburse anyone...

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