{"id":8572,"date":"2013-11-08T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=8572"},"modified":"2013-11-08T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:27:01","slug":"semi-truck-jackknives-spills-fuel-on-rainbow-bridge-in-port-arthur-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/8572\/semi-truck-jackknives-spills-fuel-on-rainbow-bridge-in-port-arthur-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Truck Jackknives Spills Fuel On Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ARTHUR, TX &#8211; A semi truck jackknifed on Thursday, October 31, in Port Arthur, TX, spilling diesel fuel and causing a closure of the Rainbow Bridge on October 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8580\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8580 \" title=\" port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident\" alt=\".A semi truck jacknifed on State Highway 73 in Port Arthur, TX spilling diesel fuel and the closure of the Rainbow Bridge on October 31, 2013. Photo credit: Luke Mauldin\/The Port Arthur News\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.A semi truck jacknifed on State Highway 73 in Port Arthur, TX spilling diesel fuel and the closure of the Rainbow Bridge on October 31, 2013. Photo credit: Luke Mauldin\/The Port Arthur News<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Port Arthur is located in Jefferson County, Texas in the southeastern part of the state on the Gulf coast on the border with Louisiana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8583\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8583 \" title=\"port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-map\" alt=\"Map shows location of the Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur, TX where a semi truck jackknifed, punctured its fuel tank and caused a diesel fuel leak on October 31, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-map-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/port-arthur-tx-semi-truck-accident-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map shows location of the Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur, TX where a semi truck jackknifed, punctured its fuel tank and caused a diesel fuel leak on October 31, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The accident occurred around 9:43 a.m. on State Highway 73 on the Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur. There were no other vehicles involved and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The big rig&#8217;s fuel tank was punctured in the incident causing a fuel leak that lead to the closure of the bridge for hours.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Blog post by Gordon, Elias &amp; Seely, LLP at <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\">TruckAccidentLaw.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ARTHUR, TX &#8211; A semi truck jackknifed on Thursday, October 31, in Port Arthur, TX, spilling diesel fuel and causing a closure of the Rainbow Bridge on October 31, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-8572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-truck-accidents","category-truck-accident-lawyers","tag-texas-truck-accident-lawyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8572"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}