Crime & Safety
Police Seek Truck Carrying Yellow Paint That Spilled Onto Roadway
Canton police say the five-gallon bucket of paint fell off the bed of the truck Wednesday on Butterworth Road at Marietta Highway.
CANTON, GA -- The Canton Police Department is looking for a pickup truck carrying a bucket of paint that tumbled onto the roadway near a busy intersection.
The older model Chevrolet or GMC truck was traveling along Butterworth Road at Marietta Highway when a five-gallon bucket of paint fell from the bed of the truck onto the road.
The incident was reported around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23 and "numerous citizens were unable to avoid the spill and splashed yellow paint on their vehicles," the agency said on its Facebook page (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).
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City public works crews were able to clean up the paint from the roadway.
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Residents are asked to help identify the truck as well as its owner. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police department at 770-720-4883 or pdinfo@cantonga.gov.
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