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Vehicle Accident in USA on Friday, 06 April, 2012 at 18:50 (06:50 PM) UTC.
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Coast Guard officials are investigating the cause of an oil sheen on the Mississippi River after a vessel struck a piling and sank in the uptown New Orleans area Friday morning. Although the towboat Altro Donna was carrying roughly 11,500 gallons of diesel fuel, officials do not yet know if the vessel is leaking or if the sheen was from materials already present on the deck of the ship when it sank. Coast Guard officials say that an oil response team is on the site of the accident near mile marker 100 in the river, between Jefferson and Napoleon avenues. The Atro Donna was pushing eight empty barges when it hit a piling and began to sink. The ship is about 98 percent submerged. There were no injuries and all crew members escaped to safety. Coast Guard crews are directing maritime traffic near the ship, and say that if a cleanup is necessary they will cordon off the area.
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