Blow Me Over Tuesday, December 29, 2009 03:31 - Rescue 62 and Engine 70 where dispatched to I 95 NB on the I 476 NB ramp for a fuel spill. As the companies arrived they found a little surprise, at 18-wheeler on its side. There was a small fuel spill of fewer than 5 gallons of diesel on the highway. Apparently the State Police may have been out with the truck for approximately one hour. Exactly how this was not dispatched, as an accident will never be known. The truck had been hauling freight of two liter bottles of soda and seltzer water.    At the time of the accident extremely high winds covered the area with gust upwards of 50mph. It appeared the truck might have been blown over by high winds onto the guide rail. The portion of the ramp was just above the northbound I 95 ramp from the Blue Route. As the tractor-trailer went over it rode the guide rail on the bridge eventually coming to rest flat on its passenger side.  It only left about 10 feet for passing vehicles to get by on the ramp.  When the trailer was riding across the railing it ripped open sending bottle over the side on down along the sides of the lower ramp.   One came only imagine people’s faces as the bottles bounced around off the ground like rubber balls as they flew around the bend onto I 95 northbound.    It was actually an easy call for the companies, two buckets of oil dry, and some illumination from the light tower, and back in station in less than 1 hour.  PSP had Penn Dot close the ramp and after 8 hours and around 10:00am the ramp was re-opened.