Two people were hurt and a man is facing charges after a tanker truck struck a vehicle on I-95 in Delaware Saturday.
Police say 40-year-old Chester Stallings of Wilmington was driving a 2006 Peterbilt 999 Sanitation tanker truck on I-95 northbound at the split with I-295 south of the Newport Exit SR 141 at 5:18 p.m. The truck was directly behind a 2010 Subaru Legacy. Police say Stallings looked down at his GPS device and then struck the back of the Subaru. The Subaru continued in a northeast direction and then stopped in the center median.
The tanker truck swerved left in a northwest direction before striking a guardrail. It then continued through the guardrail and overturned. Stallings had to be extricated out of the truck and was then taken to Christiana Hospital where he was treated for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He was charged with inattentive driving, driving suspended, following too closely and no proof of insurance. He also received additional charges for being wanted for failure to pay for previous traffic charges, police said.
The driver of the Subaru was not hurt in the crash though his passenger, a 59-year-old woman, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The northbound left lanes of I-95 at the split with I-295 were closed for approximately 3.5 hours as crews cleaned up the sanitation spill and pumped out the tanker truck's fuel tank as a precaution. Officials continue to investigate the crash.
