CLEVELAND, OH - An overturned semi left quite a tomato clean-up on Cleveland’s aisle 71 yesterday morning, having rolled and blocked a key ramp around 4 a.m., June 8th.
The cause of the major spill was not reported, and though EMS was called to the scene, no injuries seem to have been connected to the accident, according to Cleveland 19. Except for the veggies themselves, of course.
According to Fox 8 Cleveland, a mix of other vegetables were involved in the mess, but from the images and reports, the majority of the transport was tomatoes. For whatever reason, the truck rolled and spilled all its produce onto the ramp.
A back-up in traffic wasn’t the only result, with a few channels putting some good use to those tomato emojis. As can be expected, spinoff jokes in social media were amongst the reports.
The spill left tons of tomatoes spilled across the Interstate 90 eastbound ramp to Interstate 71/State Route 176, necessitating hours of work and cleanup before it could reopen.
Drivers were detoured to I-490 eastbound as an alternate route while the situation was handled, helping to mitigate delays. Workers cleaned tomatoes up and worked to get the truck upright through the morning rush hour, successfully getting the ramp reopened around lunch.
