OIL CITY — A truck driver is hospitalized in critical condition after his fuel tanker overturned this morning, spilling thousands of gallons of diesel fuel into a stream.

State police say William Sankey, 39, of New Castle was flown to UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh after the crash just before 4:30 a.m. near Oil City.

Police say Sankey went off the road. The tanker was carrying 7,000 gallons of diesel, which ended up in a stream and caught fire.

Traffic had to be detoured.

By The Associated Press