A crash involving a huge truck caused over 150,000 tomatoes to spill around Interstate 80 in Vacaville, Calif.
In Solano County, Calif, where over half the land is used for agriculture, citizens smell the earthy scent of tomatoes. A huge truck transports the product south to the Bay region. Those trucks generally carry approximately 50,000 pounds of tomatoes in a large pool of red.
Some are generally fallen around the area thanks to bumps on the road.
A truck has spilled over 150,000 tomatoes around a crowded motorway in the US state of California, causing traffic to stop. The spilled tomatoes caused seven cars to collide and shut down much of the interstate 80 highway on Monday. Running cars caused them to become a slippery red paste.
“Those individuals have minor injuries, and a fourth is in a hospital with a broken limb,” according to the California Highway Patrol. Amid tomato season, truck drivers use the big highway to deliver the fruits around the state.
Tomatoes spill from truck causes a ruckus
According to the reports, the first crash forced the tomato truck to deviate into the central divide of the motorway, splattering first-sized tomatoes around a 200-foot area of the motorway. Highway Patrol Official Jason Tyhurst said, “This left a sea of red sauce approximately two feet deep.”
Cars plough through the crushed tomatoes, creating a hazardous sludge of tomato juice, oil, and dirt. Jason Tyhurst said, “These tomato peels, man, when they hit the concrete, it’s similar to walking on ice.”
The clearing team used a dipper similar to a backhoe to clean roads and then threw absorbent powder on the roads. Vince Jacala defined the powder as “kitty litter but not as grainy.” The team then used road sweepers, he said. The clearing team permitted the road to restart a few hours later.
According to the California Tomato Growers Association, the Golden State produces over 90% of the nation’s edible tomatoes and nearly half of the world’s eatable tomatoes. Solano County Deputy Tyhurst said that the California Highway Patrol had handled tomato spills earlier in the day in Solano County.
However, we had never dealt with this scale before. Generally, they are on lightly trafficked roads. He was not certain if other fruits or vegetables could cause such harmful circumstances. However, Vince Jacala believed that tomatoes pose a specific danger as they are soft, spongy, and slippery.
