6,000 Gallons Of Scotch Catch Fire In New Jersey After Truck Flips Over

A truck carrying 6,000 gallons of Scotch flipped over and caught on fire while navigating a New Jersey roadway on Tuesday. Nobody was hurt, but the truck driver was transported to the hospital as a precaution.

The Scotch accident occurred while the truck driver of B-line Trucking of Newark was trying to make a turn but clipped a telephone pole and then hit a car, flipping its load in the process.

That's when the fire broke out, Fire Chief Dan Gregan said. It's still not clear where the fire originated, but it is suspected that it started with either the fuel tank or with the whiskey.

Fortunately, the fire did not pose a threat to the neighborhood of Woodbridge, New Jersey and the driver was not seriously injured.

Woodbridge is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey with a population of 99,585 people. The Township of Woodbridge is the oldest original township in the state of New Jersey and is named after Reverend John W. Woodbridge (1613-1691) who settled in the early autumn of 1664 and was granted a royal charter on June 1, 1669, by King Charles the second of England. It was reincorporated on October 31, 1693. Woodbridge Township was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as part of the initial group of 104 townships incorporated in the state under the Township Act. 

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