Pickup damages pump station on Warrington Road
A pickup truck crashed near a home on Warrington Road Oct. 7 damaging property and a county sewer pump station.
The crash happened about 2:30 p.m. when responders with the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Co. found the driver in the middle of Warrington Road and the pickup 500 feet away, said Ken Swarts, captain with the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Co.
The pickup had continued without a driver through two fences, and smashed into a back-up generator for a Sussex County sewer pump station before coming to a rest on top of some small trees, Swarts said. Two homes in the Sea Chase subdivision were temporarily evacuated while crews stabilized a severed electrical line and diesel fuel leak in the area around the destroyed power generator, he said.
The driver was transported to Beebe Healthcare by the fire company ambulance and Sussex County Paramedics. Fire company crews and Delaware State Police remained on scene for over an hour while county crews worked to restore the pump station and remove the damaged equipment.
