On Thursday in Northern Arizona, a semi-truck hauling 22 tons of pizza dough and flour crashed. Contents spilled onto U.S. 89.
All that's left missing would be about 25 tons of tomato sauce and cheese and you're ready for an Arizona Pizza Party. Pull out the portable brick oven out of the garage!
The semi apparently bounced off a guardrail and ended up rolling on its side around 4:00 in the morning, said The Arizona Department of Public Safety. The truck was found on Jack's Peak, a stretch of road outside Page, Arizona.
The delivery truck was delivering a load of 44,500 pounds of pizza dough and flour. Authorities said that fatigue and speed may have been the main contributors to the crash. It was also reported that no one was injured in the accident site. The driver was cited with failure to control the vehicle by the Department of Public Safety.
The driver, unnamed, was described to be between 5'7" and 5'10", and between 20 and 30 years old.
An announcement from the Public Information Officer of Arizona State Troopers, Raul Garcia - tweeted @dps_pio_garcia : "Restricted: #US89 at MP 527 due to 42K load of pizza dough & flour. No injury. Speed & fatigue may be involved." Warning motorists to avoid the route. Garcia currently and previously also reporting multiple road accidents along Arizona - covering head-on collisions, off-ramp collisions and the like. You can follow his Twitter handle to get a live update if you're planning on a road trip in Arizona.
If you were on your way to Page, Arizona at that time, then you might have seen the white debris on the side of the road. The truck crashing into the guard rail destroyed the railings. Flour and pizza dough covering the crash site. Making it look like it was snowing in Arizona or it's a post-apocalyptic explosion covered in ashes.
Long stretch of roads especially in Arizona have recorded car and truck accidents for the past few years. Accidents attributing to collisions, fatigue, speed and carelessness.
