QUEENSBURY -- A driver for an Albany transportation company has been charged in connection with last month’s spill of rancid meat on Aviation Road that resulted in numerous vehicles stinking for days.

Vincent E. Howard of Albany, a driver for Baker Commodities Inc. of Albany, was charged with two counts of disposing of refuse on a highway, one count each by State Police and the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The charge is a noncriminal violation of state Vehicle & Traffic Law.

Howard was in the area, picking up expired meat and grease from restaurants to take to a rendering plant. A door was not secured on a truck Howard drove, and as he went up the hill on Aviation Road, the door opened and meat inside slid off the truck, police report.

Numerous pieces of meat, apparently chicken fat, fell from the truck onto the road in front of Aviation Mall. Dozens of vehicles drove through it and wound up having to be cleaned to remove the remnants, which left horrific smells behind.

Local car washes reported some motorists going through numerous times to clean the undercarriages of their vehicles.