State police ID driver of chocolate-hauling rig in West Finley accident
State police identified the driver of the tractor-trailer that was carrying tens of thousands of pounds of chocolate when it slid into a culvert Tuesday in rural West Finley Township.
State police said William H. Levis, 39, of Fenton, Del., told them he’d been driving west on Jake Hill Road at about 5 miles per hour when he felt the truck’s trailer begin to slip as he negotiated a hard left turn shortly before 4 p.m.
He reportedly saw the trailer starting to push through a guard rail on the left side of the road and go down into a culvert. Levis reportedly stopped the truck, and the trailer slid completely into the culvert.
State police said there was no damage to the 33,500-pound load of chocolate Levis was hauling. Levis was uninjured. The trailer sustained “functional damage” and had to be towed from of the culvert, according to state police.
“No notification was made to the Department of Agriculture, as there were no leaks or spills from either (the truck) or its trailer into the roadway or culvert,” state police wrote in an incident summary.