Beer Truck

Justin Riray
2/23/09
Mcom 100w – MW 1:30 p.m.
Beer Truck
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Traffic came to a complete standstill on the Bay Bridge eastbound deck due to a beer truck that caught on fire around 1 p.m. on Monday.
For 45 minutes, drivers were stranded before firefighters put out the flames a little after 2 p.m., though the incident clogged the flow of many Bay Area freeways.
California Highway Patrol Officer Shawn Chase said that the driver of the refrigerator truck carrying Coors beer and didn’t notice that a tire blew out and kept driving. Sparks from the metal rim scraping the road ignited the fire.
All westbound lanes and some of the eastbound lanes were reopened around 2 p.m., but the wreckage wasn’t cleared off the bridge until 5:52 p.m.