SOUTHEAST — A tractor-trailer hauling human waste lost its load on Interstate 684 today, spilling hundreds of gallons of the smelly stuff on the highway and jamming traffic for miles this afternoon.
"It looks like snow on the road except that it's brown and blackish in color," Brewster Fire Chief Ken Clair said. "And, yes, it stinks."
The accident happened shortly after 11 a.m. just past the interchange with Interstate 684, backing up traffic on both highways.
The sewage was being hauled improperly in an open rig, covered by a tarp, rather than a tank truck, according to a Putnam County Health Department official.
I-84 was closed eastbound from about 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., turning the highway into a parking lot.
Clair said firefighters and ambulance crews were tending to an accident on I-84 involving a car and a tractor-trailer when the second 18-wheeler, hauling the human waste, apparently came upon the scene too fast and couldn't stop.
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