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SPILLED GLASS STOPS TRAFFIC ON 3 FREEWAY LANES.


Byline: Daily News

AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations:

In Mexico:
  • Agua Dulce, Veracruz
In the United States:
  • Agua Dulce, California
  • Agua Dulce, El Paso County, Texas
  • Agua Dulce, Nueces County, Texas
 - A spilled truckload of glass backed up traffic for miles Monday morning on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. .

About half of the load fell from a big-rig hauling sheets of glass near Agua Dulce Canyon Road, spreading broken shards across all three lanes about 8:30 a.m., just as rush hour was ending.

California Highway Patrol highway patrol
n.
A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways.
 officials said a strap securing the glass to the flatbed trailer broke, allowing glass to fall onto the highway. No one was injured.

Cleanup took about three hours, with southbound traffic backed up two or three miles at late morning.

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(1 -- 2 -- color) California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California.  workers, above, clean up shattered glass - finally gathered into a pile, left - from the southbound lanes of the Antelope Valley Freeway on Monday morning. Plates of glass fell from a flatbed truck.

(3 -- color -- ran in SAC edition only) The cleanup snarled snarl 1  
v. snarled, snarl·ing, snarls

v.intr.
1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth.

2. To speak angrily or threateningly.

v.tr.
 southbound traffic for about three hours.

Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Oct 1, 2002
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