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Cleanup crews were trying on Saturday to contain petroleum that leaked from a tanker truck that crashed and flipped upside down on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, spilling fuel into a tributary of a river that had recently been restored for salmon runs. Preliminary estimates say about 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of mostly gasoline and some diesel spilled into Indian Creek, a …

CLALLAM COUNTY, Wash. — A tanker truck is leaking petroleum after it went off Highway 101 and into Indian Creek, west of Port Angeles, Friday morning. The crash was reported by the Washington State Department of Transportation shortly before 11 a.m. At first, only the westbound lanes were closed, and traffic was alternating. But at 12:37 p.m., both directions of …