Westchester County - Human Waste Spill On I-84 Jamming Traffic

Westchester County - A tractor-trailer hauling human waste lost its load on the interchange with Interstate 684, spilling hundreds of gallons of the stuff on the highway and jamming traffic for miles, I-84 was closed eastbound turning the highway into a parking lot. "It looks like snow on the road except that it's a deferent color," Brewster Fire Chief Ken Clair said. "And, yes, it stinks."

The sewage was being hauled improperly in an open rig, covered by a tarp, rather than a tank truck, according to the Health Department.

Clair said firefighters and ambulance crews were tending to an accident on I-84 involving a car and a tractor-trailer when the second 18-wheeler, hauling the human waste, apparently came upon the scene too fast and couldn't stop.