3,000 gallons of antifreeze, 2,700 gallons of used oil spill near Dodger Stadium

LOS ANGELES — A semi-truck collided with a freeway partition and led to the spilling of astir 3,000 gallons of antifreeze connected a freeway adjacent Dodger Stadium, according to the California Highway Patrol.

According to CHP Officer Austin Heredia, a 64-year-old antheral was driving a 2009 Freightliner semi-truck connected the southbound 5 Freeway adjacent the southbound 110 Freeway astatine 4:34 p.m. Monday and made an unsafe turning question to the close and collided with the close broadside of the freeway’s factual wall, causing him to suffer power of the tanker, which subsequently overturned.

In summation to the 3,000 gallons of antifreeze, 2,700 gallons of utilized lipid was spilled, resulting successful the closure of the modulation roadworthy from the 5 Freeway to the 110 Freeway for an chartless duration arsenic Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters worked to incorporate and cleanable the spill, Heredia said.

In summation to LAPD’s Hazmat Unit, the California Department of Transportation and the cleanup unit Ocean Blue assisted astatine the scene.

The collision remains nether investigation, and anyone with accusation astir it is asked to interaction Heredia astatine 213 744-2331.