As rain soaked Southern California's roadways, three frightening crashes were reported at the same spot in Santa Clarita, including a truck flipping over the side of a guardrail and crashing down on top of wreckage from an earlier collision.
Video shows a box truck tumbling over the side of a rain-soaked freeway in Santa Clarita, falling on top of wreckage from an earlier crash.As rain soaked Southern California's roadways overnight, a series of three dangerous crashes were reported at the same spot in Santa Clarita, including a truck flipping over the side of a guardrail and crashing down on top of wreckage from an earlier collision.
The frightening pileups happened over a span of nine hours near the Highway 14 / 5 Freeway interchange.It shows a box truck advertising Toyo Tires apparently losing control on the upper roadway and tumbling upside down over the guardrail onto southbound truck bypass lanes below. There were already several wrecked vehicles, including a big rig, on the roadway at that spot. The box truck fell upside down and landed on top of an SUV and the already-overturned big rig.
The CHP says the series of incidents started around 10:15 p.m. Thursday when a semitruck jacknifed, leaving the trailer hanging over the side of the road. Another crash was reported at 6:30 a.m. Friday involving a different semi and one or more passenger vehicles. As authorities were investigating this second crash, the Toyo box truck tumbled over the side around 7:24 a.m. and landed on the existing wreckage.
The second crash also involved the spilling of about 40 gallons of fuel onto the road. Cleanup crews were called in to respond.Copyright © 2022 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.
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