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700 gallons of cooking oil spilled near Better Made factory in Detroit after crash, officials say

No oil went into sewer

Detroit fire officials say 300 gallons of cooking oil that was being delivered to the Better Made facility spilled on the ground after the tanker truck carrying it was involved in a crash on Tuesday, June 10. (WDIV)

DETROIT – Gallons of cooking oil spilled onto the ground after a crash near the Better Made factory in Detroit on Tuesday morning.

The Detroit Fire Department said the tanker truck was making a delivery to the potato chip factory at 10148 Gratiot Avenue when the crash happened. No one was injured.

Three hundred gallons of cooking oil spilled onto the ground after the crash, but Detroit Fire officials say none of it went into the sewer. (WDIV)

Seven hundred gallons of cooking oil spilled onto the ground, but none of it went into the sewer, according to the fire department.

Detroit fire officials previously reported that 300 gallons of cooking oil had spilled, but updated that number to 700 Tuesday afternoon.

The trucking company is handling the cleanup, with the Fire Marshal Division standing by to monitor.

The oil that’s left on the tanker will be offloaded onto another tanker later this afternoon, officials said.


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