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Banana Truck Overturns On Freeway
POSTED: 8:45 am PDT June 15, 2005
UPDATED: 11:35 am PDT June 15, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- Several lanes of northbound Interstate 5 were blocked Wednesday morning when a tractor trailer loaded with bananas overturned.
According to investigators, the driver of the truck was traveling at about 57 mph when he was distracted while he was looking at his paperwork. His truck swerved out of control, hit the right shoulder guard rail and jacknifed.
The accident happened at about 5:20 a.m. on a stretch of the freeway that runs through Camp Pendleton, . All 48,000 pounds of bananas remained inside the trailer, and no one was injured in the crash.
It took authorities six hours to empty the bananas from the trailer and remove the truck from the roadway. By 11:30 a.m., all lanes of the freeway had reopened.
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"...you see, the man who told me about it on the bus as we went up the hill out of Scranton, Pensylvania.... he shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and he said, 'Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas...'"
- Harry Chapin, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"
Banana Truck Overturns On Freeway
POSTED: 8:45 am PDT June 15, 2005
UPDATED: 11:35 am PDT June 15, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- Several lanes of northbound Interstate 5 were blocked Wednesday morning when a tractor trailer loaded with bananas overturned.
According to investigators, the driver of the truck was traveling at about 57 mph when he was distracted while he was looking at his paperwork. His truck swerved out of control, hit the right shoulder guard rail and jacknifed.
The accident happened at about 5:20 a.m. on a stretch of the freeway that runs through Camp Pendleton, . All 48,000 pounds of bananas remained inside the trailer, and no one was injured in the crash.
It took authorities six hours to empty the bananas from the trailer and remove the truck from the roadway. By 11:30 a.m., all lanes of the freeway had reopened.
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"...you see, the man who told me about it on the bus as we went up the hill out of Scranton, Pensylvania.... he shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and he said, 'Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas...'"
- Harry Chapin, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"