BERNARDS, N.J. — A firefighter who totaled a $400,000 fire tanker in a single-vehicle accident has been cited for careless driving in Pottersville, N.J.
Lewis Moore Jr., 47, and a juvenile were hospitalized with minor injuries after the crash at the weekend, according to My Central Jersey.
Firefighter Moore said he had been at a fire department training drill when he was called to respond to a brush fire. He drove the Pottersville Volunteer Fire Company’s 1985 Chevrolet tanker with the overhead lights and siren activated until the tanker ran a four-way stop, hit a bump, fishtailed, and rolled onto the passenger’s side a few hundred feet west of the intersection, according to the article.
Firefighter Moore and the juvenile passenger were found walking by the side of the road “in a daze,” the report said. Water was leaking from the tanker, which sustained irreparable damage, reducing the company’s pieces of apparatus to two.
Pottersville Fire Chief Thomas Anderson said Moore may have been swerving to avoid another car on the road, so it’s unclear whether Moore might face any disciplinary action from the fire company.