Courtesy Derek Tippit
North of Calistoga, a fuel tanker rolled off Highway 29 on Thursday, closing the highway—a major access route between Lake County and Napa County—for almost a full day. The driver was uninjured. 
HIGHWAY 29 — A three-mile stretch of Highway 29 in Lake and Napa counties was reopened Friday morning after being closed for nearly 24 hours due to an accident.
A fuel tanker carrying gasoline had rolled over on Highway 29 just north of Calistoga on Thursday at 10:47 a.m., closing the road in both directions and snarling traffic in the immediate vicinity for almost a full day. Emergency crews rushed to the scene and found the driver uninjured. The tanker’s contents were later carefully siphoned into an empty tanker nearby.
Napa County Office of Emergency Services reported Friday at 7:15 a.m. that the highway, which had been closed from Tubbs Lane in Napa County to Bradford Road south of Middletown, was reopened to all traffic.
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