{"id":325252,"date":"2026-08-19T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:50:08","slug":"overturned-fuel-truck-shuts-down-part-of-rockaway-turnpike-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325252\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturned fuel truck shuts down part of Rockaway Turnpike in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

An overturned tanker truck dumped fuel on Rockaway Turnpike in Meadowmere<\/a> Wednesday, shutting down all traffic on a portion of the road for hours.<\/p>\n

The truck crash occurred shortly after 11 a.m. near the intersection of Rockaway Turnpike and Meyer Ave., just across the water from Kennedy Airport.<\/p>\n

Photos from the scene showed the large truck lying on its side amid firefighting foam.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported, according to the FDNY, which rushed 79 firefighters and EMS personnel to the scene.<\/p>\n

The FDNY reported the scene was under control shortly before 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

But hazmat operations were continuing as of 3:30 p.m., according to a social media post from the Nassau County Fire Marshal, which also deployed a dozen units to the overturned fuel truck.<\/p>\n

Nassau County officials told drivers to seek alternate routes Wednesday afternoon, with Rockaway Turnpike closed from Peninsula Blvd. to Brookville Blvd.<\/p>\n

Full-size, 53-foot-long, tractor-trailer trucks are not allowed on New York City streets without a permit<\/a>, with the exception of interstate highway crossings between the city and Nassau and Westchester counties.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether the overturned tanker truck had been issued a permit to travel on Rockaway Turnpike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overturned tanker truck dumped fuel on Rockaway Turnpike in Meadowmere Wednesday, shutting down all traffic on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[194,122476,46352,774,122480,9,24,63,122478,122,124,123,34159,122479,122477],"class_list":["post-325252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-fdny","tag-fuel-truck","tag-meadowmere","tag-nassau-county","tag-nassau-county-fire-marshal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-overturned-truck","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-road-closure","tag-rockaway-turnpike","tag-tanker-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}