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A tanker that ran off U.S. 17 near
Bolivia to avoid a rear-end collision
Monday afternoon tied up law enforcement
officers for six hours and
forced a 2'3-hour detour of traffic.
Traffic was rerouted behind the
state rest area along Benton and
Gilbert roads from 4:51 p.m. to 7:27
p.m. Two cranes and a wrecker were
called to lift the fully-loaded tanker,
owned by Central Transport of High
Point.
In a related fender-bender, one
woman was transported to
Brunswick Hospital with complaints
of neck injury.
Operated by Douglas Murphy, 50,
of Wilmington, the tanker was hauling
48,000 pounds of molten,
325-dcgree DMT or dimethyl
terpephthalate (DMT) when it overturned
around 1:30 p.m. It was
transporting the chemicals, used in
making synthetics, from the DuPont
plant at Inland to a Dupont plant in
Charleston. S.C.
"It's not dangerous, just hot," said
Brunswick County Emergency
Management Coordinator Cecil
Ixigan. No leakage was reported.
No charges were filed, said
Trooper It I.. Murray.
Murphy said he went off the road
after a car in the line of southbound
lane of traffic ahead of him decided
"at the last minute" to turn into the
rest stop between Kolivia and Supply
on U.S. 17.
In the midst of a heavy downpour,
he said, "The ears in front of me
were slamming on brakes. I had to
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When he pulled over the tanker
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Murphy was not injured. <
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Villiains, 67, of Wilmington, comdarned
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She was a passenger in a 1980 I .in oln
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lr., of Route 3, Dolores, S.C., and
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behind them and couldn't stop," saiil
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drivers," Turner said. "We've had T
some accidents, but if you drive a ii
million-plus miles each year you're b
going to have some accidents." tl
According to Turner, Brunswick n
County's school buses will travel ap- r
proximately 1,147,667 miles this d
school year. Union Primary's 13
buses alone will travel more than b
159,000 miles. s
So far. there have been 11 school
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Board Names
Proposed
A new party will be steering the
Brunswick County Hoard of Elcctions
come July.
Under North Carolina election law
the party in state power is entitled to
two of the three seats on the county
board and the minority party the
third seat.
Kuril party forwards the names of
three nominees to the State Board of
Elections for consideration.
From the Republican Executive
Committee, Chairman John Dozier
said the nominees chosen last month,
in order of preference, are 1 Jirry Andrews
of Shallotte, James Jeffcries
of Boiling Spring ljikes and Gtcnda
Walker of Inland. Two will be appointed.
Charles Mills of Winnabow is the
current Republican member on the
Hoard of Elections.
Meeting last Friday night, the
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nominated current elections board
chairman, Orie Gore of Southport;
board member W.T. "Rusty" Uuss of
Shallotte and Virttinia Brush, a
precinct worker from Boiling Spring
Uikes. One will be appointed to the
committee.
None of the Republican nominees
lias served previously on the elections
board, but all are former candidates
for public office.
( ore has served on the board for at
least six years, while Russ was appointed
less tlum a year uko to complete
the term of Alphonza Roach.
The three members named to the
board will each serve two-year terms
beRinninK in July.
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icidents such as minor fenderenders
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1e Union Primary bus on May 6. It is
ot known how many of those
eported accidents involved student
rivers.
"Sometimes they upset me
ccause it's nothing but common
ense mistakes," Turner said.
If the House approves the bill, then
he schools must begin recruiting
idult drivers, he added.
"It's something that will be new to
is," Turner said, "but if the lcgislaion
passes it, then we'll do the best
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Turner also hopes the state will
help install strobe lights on the rear
of school buses for safety during
loggy mornings. A flashing light
could help prevent rear end collisions,
he said.
"I've been told it won't work, but
I'm still going to push for it," Turner
said.
Another idea Turner hopes to initiate
is to install computerized boxes
on each school bus that would contain
a button for signaling the school bus
garage. When buses break down, the
device would be activated as a call
for help.
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