{"id":17551,"date":"2024-12-30T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/semi-truck-leaves-5-freeway-and-splashes-into-waterway-closing-lanes-during-peak-post-holiday-travel\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:46:27","slug":"semi-truck-leaves-5-freeway-and-splashes-into-waterway-closing-lanes-during-peak-post-holiday-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/semi-truck-leaves-5-freeway-and-splashes-into-waterway-closing-lanes-during-peak-post-holiday-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi truck leaves 5 Freeway and splashes into waterway, closing lanes during peak post-holiday travel\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Several lanes on the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles were shut down on Sunday morning for a wreck involving a semi truck that crashed into the nearby water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, December 29th on the 5 Freeway south of the Parker Road exit in Castaic, California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/critical-stretch-of-5-freeway-partially-shut-down-after-semi-truck-crash-during-holiday-travel-rush\/\">KTLA<\/a>, the tractor trailer veered off of the roadway and crashed through a guardrail before landing in a shallow waterway by the road. The wreck caused a fuel spill and sent the truck driver to the hospital. The extent of the driver\u2019s injuries have not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple lanes of the Freeway were shut down for cleanup and investigation of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201c[The waterway] basically will drain into the ocean, so we are going to control that spillage and make sure and make sure there isn\u2019t any fuel that goes into the waterway as we extract the vehicle,\u201d said Vincent Mendez of Freeway Towing Company, who helped to clear the wreckage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No further information on the wreck has been released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/semi-truck-leaves-5-freeway-and-splashes-into-waterway-closing-lanes-during-peak-post-holiday-travel\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several lanes on the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles were shut down on Sunday morning for a wreck involving a semi truck that crashed into the nearby water.\u00a0 The accident happened just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, December 29th on the 5 Freeway south of the Parker Road exit in Castaic, California.\u00a0 According to KTLA,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}