BIG RIG FULL OF FROZEN MEAT RUNS OFF GOLDEN STATE FREEWAY.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA - A truck driver was taken to the hospital after her big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. loaded with frozen meat went over the side of the freeway early Tuesday, authorities said. The driver, 45, of Tucson, complained of neck and back pain after the 3:35 a.m. crash on the northbound north·bound adj. Going toward the north. northbound Adjective going towards the north Adj. 1. Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , just south of McBean Parkway in Valencia. Her name was not immediately released. ``She said she may have fallen asleep,'' said Sgt. Lewis Hall of the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. . ``She was in the slow lane when she drifted over the side. She was already wearing a back brace from a previous injury.'' The truck's cab and the trailer, which Hall said was hauling an estimated 37,000 pounds of assorted frozen meats, went over the right side of the freeway and overturned. It took crews more than seven hours to offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. the cargo onto another truck, he said. A crew set up on the western edge of the Vista Valencia golf course, adjacent to the freeway, and transferred the cargo by hand. ``It took a long time to offload the meat, but doing it on the golf course, it wasn't blocking traffic,'' Hall said. ``For the benefit of the commuters, we asked that (the towing crew) postpone removing the truck until late at night, after the afternoon commute.'' The driver, who was not cited, was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, which is under investigation, Hall said. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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