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Dog food spilled onto turnpike in crash involving tractor-trailer, garbage trucks

PITTSBURGH — An accident involving a tractor trailer-trailer, two garbage trucks and another vehicle on the westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike backed up traffic Thursday morning.

State police said the incident began when the driver of a disabled Waste Management truck attempted to pull it over on the side of the road near mile marker 53 between Monroeville and Allegheny Valley. The truck was not completely off the road. %

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Another Waste Management truck and a turnpike vehicle arrived on the scene and pulled over.

Police said a tractor trailer-trailer hauling dog food failed to move into the left lane, and as a result it clipped the mirror of the turnpike vehicle and rear-ended the first Waste Management truck.

The impact forced it into the other Waste Management truck, and sliced open the box trailer.
Dog food spilled onto the road.

Both Waste Management drivers suffered what police describe as moderate injuries, which are not life threatening.

The driver of the tractor trailer will be cited for violating the “steer clear” law.