Laguna Hills : I-5 Traffic Is Snarled When Truck Overturns
Southbound traffic on Interstate 5 in Laguna Hills was snarled Friday morning after a cement pumping truck tipped over on its side after hitting a guardrail, the California Highway Patrol said.
The 5:08 a.m. accident took place north of Alicia Parkway and kept all but one lane of the heavily traveled freeway closed for five hours, said Ken Daily, a public affairs officer for CHP at San Juan Capistrano.
“At one point this morning, traffic was jammed up to Newport Avenue on the I-5 and to Jeffrey Road on the 405,” Dailey said Friday.
Truck driver Clint Dudley Jones, 26, of Buena Park suffered a dislocated shoulder and was admitted to Saddleback Hospital and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Jones told the CHP that his wheels pulled to the right and that the truck drifted uncontrollably and hit the guardrail, at the Aliso Creek Bridge, Daily said.
The truck’s front axle rolled out onto the freeway, and a car ran into it. The driver, Peter Frank Aguayo, 59, of Anaheim, was not injured, but his car was damaged, Daily said.
“The truck spilled about 50 gallons of diesel fuel into the creek bed,” said Daily.
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