At some point after a truck dropped tens of 1000’s of tomatoes on a California freeway, a Tennessee roadway shut down after a ginormous load of alfredo sauce spilled throughout a number of lanes.
A tractor-trailer carrying tons of of jars of Bertolli alfredo sauce crashed on Freeway Interstate 55 Tuesday round 5 pm, inflicting a creamy and tacky mess as commuters have been headed residence for the day.
Memphis police stated the 18-wheeler hit a retaining wall, inflicting a large load of sauce to spill throughout all northbound lanes, inflicting visitors to hit a standstill, NBC Information reported.
Clear up crews labored by way of the night to clear the slippery — and ultimately because the day went on, smelly — mess.
The saucy state of affairs triggered one girl to be taken to an space hospital, the place she was handled for non life-threatening accidents, officers stated.
Only a day earlier, over 2,000 miles away in Vacaville, California, a neighborhood Interstate skilled a equally saucy mess. A truck carrying tons of of 1000’s of tomatoes crashed and spilled, inflicting drivers to skid over the crushed tomatoes, making a red-stained roadway.
Tomatoes rolled on for about 200 toes and appeared to cowl the pavement ‘two toes deep,’ the state freeway patrol stated.
Some drivers who have been unaware of the spillage soared over the tomatoes, making a slippery mess and inflicting a number of vehicles to crash into one another. The person driving the tomato truck and two different folks sustained minor accidents. One particular person additionally suffered a damaged leg, in response to Patrol Officer Jason Tyhurst.
Officers closed the freeway for a number of hours to be able to clear up the gooey crimson mess.
The Web had loads of laughs between the 2 juicy accidents.
On Tuesday, Rodger Sherman, journalist on the Ringer, tweeted, ‘In case you are a trucker carrying pesto sauce throughout the USA you want to get off the highway proper now. Remaining Pastanation is upon us, it isn’t secure on the market.’
One other commentator joined in, joking: ‘Possibly as a substitute of an enclosed cargo trailer, they need to be delivery that sauce on a flatbread.’
‘Hey, I do know the man who owns that truck. It’s the Rig o’Tony,’ one other twitter person chimed in.
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