There was a post today in the LA Time’s Bottleneck Blog (bottleneckblog) that went as follows:
Cars are backed up 20 miles on southbound Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton because of a rollover crash involving a meat truck. Fuel tanks on the Vons grocery truck burst into flames when the big-rig overturned at about 5:09 a.m. It touched off a four-acre brush fire in a remote area of the Marine base along the highway. Southbound lanes were immediately shut down. The brush blaze was put out within an hour. California Highway Patrol Officer Larry Landeros says the trucker is seriously injured and had to be rescued from the demolished rig. The CHP says witnesses told officers the truck flipped over a few times. The left lane and an area along the center divider in the southbound I-5 lanes reopened at 6:12 a.m. — Associated Press
My response, when reading it, was: How quickly did the Marines line up for the free barbequed steak?
