Beer truck overturns; snarls traffic on major road
By S.K. BARDWELL
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
"I thought it smelled like Oktoberfest," said Deborah Williams of the traffic snarl that trapped her in southeast Houston today.
Williams, a 20-year-old preparing to return to classes at Southwest Texas State University, obviously knows her festivals.
Trying to leave her home in the Santa Rosa subdivision early today, Williams got caught in a line of traffic so long she couldn't see the cause of the backup.
"So I was just thinking about school, and friends, and stuff, and I started thinking how we'd all go to Oktoberfest in New Braunfels," Williams said.
"It didn't occur to me what made me start thinking that until I got up close enough to see the accident."
Gallons and gallons of beer, spilled from an 18-wheeler that police said turned over when the driver tried to take a turn at Telephone Road and Wayside Drive too quickly about 6 a.m. this morning.
No one was hurt in the accident, but it took a few hours to clean up the fragrant mess, and snarled traffic in the area during rush hour.
"But that's OK," Williams laughed. "It could have been meat, or chemicals, some really nasty smell."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1514792Sooooooooooooooo ... how was the date??
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