{"id":602756,"date":"2026-04-14T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:18:18","slug":"dramatic-video-of-crash-that-closed-highway-near-hampton-emerges-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602756\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic video of crash that closed highway near Hampton emerges online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A\u00a0dramatic video circulating online showing the tanker-truck accident and petroleum spill that has closed the eastbound lanes of Highway 1 near Hampton for several days appears to be genuine, according to a CBC News analysis of the footage.<\/p>\n

The 14-second video was posted on the weekend by the Facebook account Skilled Truckers Canada and shows a transport that is hauling a double-tanker trailer strike the rear of dump truck and then roll over.<\/p>\n

Charbel Awad, New Brunswick’s deputy environment minister, said he has not seen the footage but said anyone who knows anything about the accident should share it with investigators.<\/p>\n

“If anybody has information in regard to the incident, contact the RCMP and those doing the investigation to provide them with that information,” said Awad.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Video shows tanker-truck crash northeast of Saint John:\"\"<\/p>\n

Video shows tanker-truck crash northeast of Saint John<\/p>\n

The tanker spilled about 36,000 litres of fuel and closed Route 1 between Hampton and Quispamsis for more than a day.<\/p>\n

The video appears to show liquid spilling out the truck immediately after rolling over.\u00a0The province has estimated 36,000 litres of petroleum did leak from the truck as a result of the accident last Wednesday and it has kept the eastbound section of the twinned highway closed as it attempts to clean up the fuel and any related contamination.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Awad said the Department of Environment and Local Government has been removing contaminated\u00a0soil and placing\u00a0“underflow dams and booms”\u00a0in local waterways to prevent the petroleum from travelling down any nearby tributary of the Hammond River.<\/p>\n

\"AA boom placed across Bradley Brook near the scene of a petroleum spill near Hampton is meant to prevent the escape of oil from the area. (Roger Cosman\/CBC)<\/p>\n

“What’s already gone into the waterways has been contained so its not propagating any further than where it is and they’re in the process of cleaning that up,” said Awad\u00a0<\/p>\n

The accident video had been viewed nearly 500,000 times by mid-day Monday and was raising questions among skeptics in the comment section about whether it was real or a fake generated by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

However, according to an analysis by CBC News, the accident video geo-locates precisely to the spot of the incident.\u00a0Surrounding features including nearby trees and elevation differences between east and westbound lanes\u00a0in the area are exact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vehicles involved are also oriented in the same position following the crash in the video as they were in photos taken later at the scene by others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, tire skid marks present following the accident match the zig-zagging route taken by the transport in the video as it tried unsuccessfully to avoid the accident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-602756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}