Load of apple sauce leaks onto Illinois interstate in single rig crash

A load of apple sauce leaked onto an Illinois interstate in a single rig crash earlier this week. 

The accident happened on Monday, October 6th in Franklin County, Illinois at 4:38 a.m. 

According to Local 12, police were called on reports of a single vehicle crash on Interstate 57 and arrived to find a tractor trailer with a load of apple sauce overturned in the roadway. 

The crash broke open the trailer and spilled the apple sauce across the roadway, leaving a yellow pool of smashed apples on the pavement. 

Cleanup of the incident took about four hours. I-57 was reopened at about 8:45 a.m. 

No injuries were reported. It is not clear if the truck driver was cited for the incident.

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