Fairmont Road was closed after a truck carrying coal flipped on its side Monday afternoon.
It was closed until about 5:15 p.m. while coal that spilled into the roadway was cleaned up. The road was blocked from the time of the wreck, about 1:45 p.m. First responders closed Fairmont Road at Sugar Grove Road and Mall Road.
A truck carrying coal wrecked just before Donnie’s Citgo. It was full of coal which spilled into the roadway. The truck needed to be lifted from its side and the coal cleaned up.
The driver was injured but would be fine, according to emergency radio traffic. It is unclear if he was taken to the hospital. The wreck is the most serious of those caused by the winter storm that passed through the area Monday morning.
Assistant 911 director Brad Wilson said there were 22 wrecks reported in Mononongalia County from midnight-noon Monday. No injuries were reported in those.
“Considering how bad the roads were, that’s really not that bad,” Wilson said.
While Mon County did see an ice storm on Monday, the snow that was expected to follow was pushed further north, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Paul Walker said. There was a possibility of additional freezing rain Monday night.
Today will climb to about a high of 36 degrees before starting to drop this afternoon to an eventual low of 13 tonight, Walker said. Wednesday will reach about 29 and Thursday another round of precipitation will be in the area.
Walker said it’s hard to predict what form that will take – snow, ice, sleet, freezing rain, or just regular rain. Like Monday’s storm, Thursday’s storm is coming up the spine of the Appalachian mountains, which gathers warm air and makes it hard to know where the storm will be pushed.
Wilson advised people not leave their homes during these ice storms unless they really have to do so.
He and the county’s Chief Deputy of Law Enforcement Mark Ralston both wanted people to remember to leave a lot of room between vehicles and drive slowly in these conditions.
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