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Uploaded: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 8:23 AM
Cement truck crashes on Interstate 280
Thursday morning collision forces closure of connecting ramp between 280 and Highway 85
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A crash involving a big rig closed the connecting ramp between southbound Interstate Highway 280 and northbound state Highway 85 on the border of Sunnyvale and Cupertino early Thursday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported 3:22 a.m. and a sig-alert was issued at 3:41 a.m. advising motorists that the ramp between the two highways was entirely blocked.
The double-trailer truck was carrying 80,000 pounds of dry cement, and spilled about 10 gallons of diesel fuel onto the ramp during the crash.— Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Truck Crashes, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood, on Jun 2, 2012 at 9:50 pm Reminds me of that collision between the meat packing truck and the Heinz truck loaded with barbecue sauce. They both burst into flames.
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Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Jun 3, 2012 at 11:47 am
Walter_E_Wallis is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online 10 gallons of diesel is hardly significant. Even 100 gallons would hardly match the gallonage of bitumen sprayed onto blacktop paving, and yet it is by law treated as hazardous material subject to special treatment. How absolutely absurd. How horribly wasteful. A half barrel of sand is more than enough to cure the slipperiness that is the only real hazard.
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