NC truck driver ran red light, spilled hams and meat on busy Monroe highway
An overturned tractor-trailer spilled “various meat products,” including hams, along Highway 74 in Monroe on Monday morning, city officials said in a statement.
The truck was going eastbound on Highway 74 and ran a red light at the intersection of John Moore Road and the highway just before 7 a.m., according to the city. It “collided with a vehicle then left the roadway and overturned in a parking lot” just off the highway.
Both drivers had minor injuries, the city’s statement said, and the truck driver “was charged with running a red light.”
The Charlotte Observer’s news partner WSOC reported Smithfield hams were among the meats that spilled over into highway in the wake of the collision. The wreck and resulting spill became number 45 on WSOC reporter Joe Bruno’s “Spill Tracker” list of various goods and liquids that have taken a tumble onto local roads in recent years.
After the early morning wreck, WSOC reported, “Traffic was being diverted onto John Moore Road and then Old Charlotte Road while crews cleared the road.”
