A three-vehicle accident late on the night of Thursday, September 27, involving a large truck, a sedan, and a station wagon spilled a large volume of automotive fluids onto the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84 in the area where the highway crosses above The Boulevard, closing the highway and causing extensive traffic delays.

Fortunately, none of the three motorists involved in the 10:45 pm crash were injured, officials said.

Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company Chief John Basso said 11 Hawleyville firefighters responded to the scene, making their way to the crash site along a traffic-clogged eastbound I-84. Chief Basso said the truck involved in the accident, a 2008 Kenworth, had rolled onto its driver's side and was completely blocking the eastbound lanes when firefighters arrived at the scene.

A wrecker crew initially shifted the position of the Kenworth to allow one lane of traffic to pass by the wreckage. All eastbound travel lanes were reopened to traffic about two hours after the collision occurred, the fire chief said.

The accident released a large volume of various automotive fluids from the heavily damaged truck, requiring extensive cleanup work by firefighters. They used almost 700 pounds of a loose absorbent material to prevent the spilled fluids from entering stormwater catch basins on the highway, the fire chief said.

An about 150-foot long section of the highway was covered with the automotive fluids dispersed by the impact of the accident, Chief Basso said. The Kenworth truck cab involved in the accident was not hauling a trailer.

An inspector from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) was called to the scene to supervise the cleanup work. A state Department of Transportation (DOT) crew also was called in to make emergency repairs to concrete barrier rails that were damaged in the accident.

State police described how the accident occurred:

A 2010 Honda Accord sedan driven by Todd Fellegy, 57, of Meriden was traveling eastward in the right lane of two lanes and a 2005 Volvo XC-70 station wagon driven by Gregory Curry, 66, of Port Jervis, N.Y., was traveling alongside the Honda in the left lane, state police said.

Trucker Charles Williams, 47, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., was traveling in the right lane behind the Honda when traffic slowed down due to a separate incident up ahead on I-84, state police said. The Kenworth did not slow down in time and then struck the rear end of both of the Honda and Volvo, causing both vehicles to spin out of control, state police said.

The Kenworth then struck a concrete barrier rail along the right road shoulder and rolled onto its driver's side, coming to rest lying across the highway.

All drivers were outside their vehicles when firefighters arrived at the accident scene, Chief Basso said.

Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded to the accident, as did a state trooper who is a certified commercial truck inspector.

Williams was issued an infraction for traveling too fast for conditions and for failure to maintain the travel lane, as well as for multiple commercial vehicle violations, according to state police. The truck is owned by a Tarpon Springs, Fla., firm called Southeast Bridge FL Corp.