What to Know
- Around 4,800 gallons of fuel were spilled in an early morning crash.
- As of 11 a.m., officials expected the cleanup to take several more hours.
- All northbound lanes of the 14 Freeway are closed at Soledad Canyon.
One person was injured in a crash Sunday morning on the 14 Freeway in Santa Clarita involving a small passenger vehicle and a fuel tanker that spilled about 4,800 gallons of gasoline onto the highway, authorities said.
That injured person was taken to an area hospital, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported.
Around 11 a.m., the department tweeted that all northbound lanes of the freeway would remain closed for several hours for clean-up of the fuel.
The crash on the northbound freeway at Soledad Canyon Road occurred a little before 4 a.m., the California Highway Patrol reported. The impact caused the car to overturn onto its roof, and caused the tanker to block three lanes of the freeway.
A Sigalert was issued at 4:14 a.m. closing all northbound lanes as well as the Sand Canyon Road on-ramp to the northbound 14 Freeway.
The CHP reported at 4:45 a.m. that an unknown amount of the fuel entered into the storm drain, later adding that the tanker had one double trailer, which overturned, and "the car unit is not driveable."
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At 5:32 a.m., the CHP reported that it "will be several hours before the tanker is able to be flipped back over and all the fuel is taken out."
Caltrans reported that about 4,800 gallons of gasoline spilled.
