Crime & Safety
Gas Cleanup Jams Moraga Road Traffic
Update. Hazmat team cleaned up after a punctured gas tank on Moraga Road, near School Street, Lafayette, Wednesday morning. Moraga Road was backed up, traffic flow restored now.
Updated, 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. Details from police chief.
Later Wednesday morning, Moraga Road traffic flow was restored after a hazardous material cleanup of gas spilled from a gas tank after an auto accident around 9:15 a.m. near School Street.
The spill threatened to have gas flow into a storm drain, Lafayette Police Chief Eric Christensen said. Emergency crews were on the scene protecting the storm drain and digging muck out of it.
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School officials said there was no effect on nearby Lafayette Elementary School.
Police alerts went out around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Northbound Moraga Road was backed up back to Moraga.
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