It used to be you could go for a rather uneventful dinner and wend your way home without incident...
So, imagine my surprise when it turned ugly.
As we were making the transition from one freeway to another, we encountered a huge fire... the wall of flame was a beautiful scary sight to behold, especially with all the cars racing by, attempting to avoid the mess.
Turns out some drunken moron decided to rear-end a gasoline tanker, creating an accident on the 134 going west near the 5 freeway, which probably wasn't such a bright move, given what happened next.
Boom... tanker exploded, shutting the freeway down for nearly 24 hours while fire crews doused the flames, followed by DOT checking the structures (as the impact and fire happened directly under several transition overpasses...)
An unhappy travel time was had by all... but the best part, the fool that created the mess was jailed. Thankfully, no injuries were reported, except perhaps to the foliage framing the underpass, which burned to a crisp.
Moral of the story... don't mix alcohol with gas... it never works...
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