Truck accident in a highway in California covered in tomatoes
@Deepizzaguy (115589)
Lake Charles, Louisiana
July 19, 2024 2:34pm CST
Police officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) had to close parts of Interstate 5 in Patterson California on Tuesday morning.
A truck overturned on its side which caused a load of tomatoes spilled covering the highway and shoulder which caused the highway to be closed for a period of four hours while crews from CalTrans cleaned up the mess.
The police are in the process of finding out what was the cause of the truck accident which will likely raise of tomatoes in the markets in the area.
Link is upi.com/1361720631073 via @upi
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@marguicha (228875)
• Chile
19 Jul 24
Jeezzz! Tomato sauce on the highway! It will be quite a mess for some ime.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Jul 24
I am in agreement with you.
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@marguicha (228875)
• Chile
19 Jul 24
@Deepizzaguy It will be quite slippery. I hope there´s another road to go to places there.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jul 24
@marguicha I am sure that there was an alternate route to take where the spill took place in California.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Jul 24
I like tomatoes as well.
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@RasmaSandra (90353)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jul 24
What a mess, I would have loved trying to salvage the tomatoes,
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Jul 24
I am in agreement with you.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jul 24
The highway looked bad covered with tomatoes.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jul 24
I am in agreement with you.
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@popciclecold (40218)
• United States
19 Jul 24
Wow, I bet that was a mess to clean up. That's to bad as high as food is.
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@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jul 24
That is true that the mess took a long time to clean up.
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@innertalks (23282)
• Australia
20 Jul 24
I bet the Highway Patrol were seeing red with that one.
I hope they were able to bury the tomatoes nearby, as the land around there might have been improved thereby, by the extra compost, and in a year, or two's time, people might be stopping to pick tomatoes from the newly generated plants at the side of the road.
@Deepizzaguy (115589)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jul 24
The CHP did see a lot of red on the highway.
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