BIG-RIG CRASH DUMPS FERTILIZER, PROMPTS PARTIAL CLOSURE OF I-5.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer A rear-end crash involving two big-rig trucks closed a portion of the 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. for 12 hours Friday, as crews worked to clean up a spilled load of chemical fertilizer pellets. The crash happened about 3 a.m. in the southbound lanes, a mile north of Lake Hughes Road Hughes Road is an arterial road in South Mumbai linking Opera House with Kemps Corner. To the left is Malabar Hill. , said Officer Wendy Moore of the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. . Theodore Sousa, 71, of Escalon, Calif., was driving the double-tractor trailer loaded with about 12,000 pounds of monoammonium sulfate sulfate, chemical compound containing the sulfate (SO4) radical. Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H2SO4, formed by replacing one or both of the hydrogens with a metal (e.g., sodium) or a radical (e.g., ammonium or ethyl). . ``It's a chemical fertilizer. It's not manure,'' Moore said. Investigators believe a truck driven by Rajwinder Sunner, 28, of Livingston, Calif., hit the fertilizer truck, Moore said. Sunner's truck was loaded with household cleaning supplies. ``For some reason, he rear-ended another (truck), which was carrying fertilizer that spilled,'' Moore said, adding the chemical isn't considered a hazardous material that merits special handling and cleanup precautions. The accident closed off two right lanes on the southbound freeway. Neither driver was hurt, arrested or cited in the crash, Moore said. The fertilizer pellets apparently were being trucked to strawberry fields, Moore said. Crews loaded the pellets into another truck, because the impact of the rear-end collision
A rear-end collision (often called simply rear-end) is a traffic accident where a vehicle (usually an automobile or a truck) impacts the vehicle in front of it, so called because split open the trailer being pulled by Sousa's tractor, she said. |
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