Tractor-Trailer Spills 20 Tons Of Corn Onto Wisconsin Highway

Drivers in the Milwaukee The vegetable weighed 20 tons and was thrown onto the interstate highway.

In a Twitter thread Thursday evening, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said that traffic had to be blocked on Interstate 41 southbound outside Milwaukee because a tractor-trailer overturned and spilled the vegetables onto the road. Crews had no choice but to block the highway to save the truck. The accident remains under investigation by police.

“TRAFFIC ALERT: Please exercise caution in the area of S/B I-41 @ Florist Ave., where an overturned semi carrying 40,000 lbs of 🌽 is blocking lanes 2 and 3,” The MCSO tweeted Local time: 9 p.m. “The semi driver suffered just minor injuries. The circumstances of the crash/turnover are under investigation.”

About an hour later, the road was completely closed. “UPDATE: The partial freeway closure at this rollover site is now a full freeway closure, as salvage efforts continue, with all southbound traffic diverted off of I-41 at Good Hope Road.”

A photo of the accident site was included in the tweet. The tractor-trailer was laying on its back, the truck resting on the shoulder and trailer resting in a ditch far from the road. The trailer frame had become loose and the shipping container had fallen off.

UPDATE: As salvage efforts continue, the partial closure of this rollover site has been made a complete closure. All southbound traffic will be diverted off I-41 at Good Hope Road. pic.twitter.com/WNRyicd0xO

— Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (@MilwCoSheriff) January 20, 2023

Crews were required to redirect traffic shortly thereafter. “UPDATE 2: Traffic is now being diverted off of S/B I-41 @ Appleton Ave,” MCSO wrote.

According to local radio station WTMJCrews had to take several hours to remove the truck from the road and clean it up. The truck was the only vehicle that was involved in the accident. The driver’s condition was unclear, and no details about the crash were available Friday.

I-41 is an important arterial highway linking Milwaukee and Green Bay with cities along the Fox River. It runs North-South from just south to the Wisconsin-Illinois border, and ends north of Green Bay.

Last month, another truck carried the load. 20 tons of meatballs In rural Virginia, a tractor was flipped onto a road. After the big truck flipped onto I-95 South, it caused traffic gridlock for four hours. Police arrested the driver of this rig for a traffic violation.

According to Norfolk-based news station WAVY, the tractor-trailer ran off the road and struck a guardrail when the driver overcorrected. The trailer was damaged when the vehicle jackknifed. A second large rig was traveling in the opposite direction and could not avoid the trailer. The two collided, spilling frozen meatballs onto highway. Officials stated that rescue crews took over two hours to remove the second truck driver from the truck’s cab. The driver received minor injuries and was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The driver of the meatball truck wasn’t reported as injured. He was arrested by police for failing to follow a highway marking.

Two tractor-trailers collided on opposite sides of the country in August last year. Other staples of Italian food were spilled onto California and Texas highways. A tractor-trailer transporting more than 300,000 tomatoes Collided with another vehicle. Then, it plowed into a middle divider. This caused a chain reaction of crashes.

Another big rig was then overturned on a Tennessee highway outside Memphis. It spilled gallons of gasoline. Alfredo sauce This can create a mess for both drivers and workers.

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