A heavy load tow-truck driver starts to upright a cement truck with a full load after it overturned and shut down Cherry Avenue in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.
A truck spilled cement, hydraulic fluid and oil across lanes of Cherry Avenue Wednesday morning when the driver came off the 405 Freeway too fast and tipped over, according to police.
Authorities said the crash happened around 7:15 a.m. in the 3000 block of Cherry. The driver had just exited the southbound 405 when he lost control and the cement truck overturned, Long Beach police spokeswoman Nancy Pratt said.
Crews shut down a stretch of southbound Cherry for hours while they cleaned up the mess. It was expected to reopen around 11:30 a.m., Pratt said.
The driver came away unscathed and nobody else was involved in the crash. Police wrote him a ticket for driving at an unsafe speed, Pratt said.
A heavy load tow-truck driver places chains around the axles of a cement truck after it tipped in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.A heavy load tow-truck driver places chains around the axles of a cement truck as he tries to upright it after it overturned and shut down the southbound lanes in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.A heavy load tow-truck driver starts to get a cement truck upright after it tipped with a full load in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.Wet cement pours out of an overturned cement truck in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.A cement truck with a full load overturned and shut down the southbound lanes in the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue in Long Beach November 21, 2018. Photo by Thomas R Cordova.
