A tanker truck driven by a Brush Prairie man jackknifed on Wednesday afternoon and spilled hot asphalt into the Sandy River in Brightwood, Ore.
Around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, deputies with the Clackamas County (Ore.) Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of East Barlow Trail Road and National Forest Development Road 14, where they found a tanker truck with one of its trailers dangling off an embankment. The tanks reportedly contained 14 tons of liquid asphalt, some of which spilled into the river from the rear tank.
The driver, Michael David Banta, 47, cooperated with the deputies’ investigation.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality responded to the scene of the crash to determine the environmental impact and figure out how to clean up the river.
