One truck driver lost his beer load on an icy mountain highway on Monday.
California Highway Patrol posted on its social media accounts after the accident Monday morning, “Don’t get any ideas.” This scene will be cleaned.”
CHP closed three miles of I-80 westbound and diverted traffic for more than an hour to clean up the beer spill. The truck overturned after hitting an icy patch, spilling Coors Light and snow on the California mountains.
Golden State experienced a late-season storm of snow over the weekend. Central Sierra Snow Lab, a nearby facility, received 26.4 inches on May 5. This made it the snowiest day of the “winter” period.
5/5/24 9:35am Update:
Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?This storm dropped 26.4″ (67 cm) in the last day, making May 5th the snowiest day of the season at the lab. It beat 2nd place (March 3rd) by 2.6″ (6.5 cm)! pic.twitter.com/iEg01CyabX
— UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab (@UCB_CSSL) May 5, 2024
The CHP joked that the beer cans turned blue because the mountains were blue. The icy roads didn’t deter this driver from opening the can and dumping more than a few.
The beer that featured the Rocky Mountains is now chilled on the Sierra Nevada.
According to local media, the driver and passenger received minor injuries in a hospital before being released.
Just a week before, the CHP was involved in another cleaning up. It was a more sticky situation in Fresno. On May 1, a truck delivering honey bee boxes was hit by another.
The CHP reported an “un-BEE-lievable” scene that occurred overnight when a truck carrying BEE boxes, was hit. This caused thousands of bees to scatter and their nests all over the highway in the vicinity of Selma. “Our officers were trapped in a sticky situation with thousands of worker bees for almost an hour.”
The bee boxes were smashed across the highway. Over an hour, angry worker bees swarmed around officers as they loaded bees onto another truck.
CHP officials told local media that they had saved thousands of bees. The weather was not to blame for this driver.