The Associated Press
NEW YORK — An 18-wheel gasoline truck jumped a concrete barrier and came to a stop dangling off an elevated expressway, where the driver hung precariously over a roadway for more than half an hour, police said.
Rescue workers scrambled to lash the tanker to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway following the incident early Sunday. The unidentified driver was pulled from the vehicle at about 3:20 a.m., 35 minutes after the crash was first reported, police said.
“It was hanging over Meeker Ave., angled downward,” fire Lt. Dan Taylor said of the twisted truck. “It looked like it could fall at any minute.”
“It was a gasoline truck, but luckily it was empty,” he said.
Off-duty Emergency Medical Technician Johnathan Washack heard the crash from his nearby home in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn and rushed to the scene, he said.
“He had his window rolled down. He said, ‘Can you help me?’” Washack said of the driver, who was not seriously injured. “I said, ‘Help is on the way.’”
A crane pulled the truck back onto the expressway about three hours later, police said.