The tomato paste made the road very slippery resulting in a seven-car pileup
Traffic chaos was caused on a busy California highway when a truck carrying tons of tomatoes veered off course, causing its cargo to spill across the width of the road.
As a result, not only was traffic on Interstate 80 backed up, but the tomato paste caused a seven-car pileup.
As the BBC reports, three people were slightly injured while a fourth is hospitalized with a broken leg.
This is tomato harvest season and truck drivers are using the highway to transport them across the state.
A crash involving a big-rig truck caused 150,000 tomatoes to scatter across Interstate 80 in Vacaville, California. Passing vehicles ground them into a slippery red pulp. https://t.co/NyW6nwYysN pic.twitter.com/mN3hpCXpHi
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 30, 2022
More than 150,000 tomatoes spilled onto the road after the truck carrying them collided with another vehicle.
The red “sea” that formed on the road was about “two feet deep,” according to a highway patrol officer.
The roadway became very slippery, “like walking on ice,” the officer told The New York Times.
It took hours for cleanup crews to clear and reopen the road.
The state of California produces more than 90% of the US tomato.
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