Vegetables spilled all over Brooklyn Queens Expressway when tractor trailer overturns

ByEyewitness News WABC logo
Monday, July 26, 2021
Truck hauling vegetables overturns on BQE
John Del Giorno reports over the scene of the spilled vegetables on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A tractor-trailer crashed on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway early Monday morning, spilling vegetables everywhere.

It happened on the eastbound BQE at Flushing Avenue.

Newscopter 7 was over the scene.

A mess of vegetables, believed to be peppers, were all over the expressway.

Fortunately, no one was injured.

However, only the left lane was open and the Flushing Avenue exit was closed while crews cleaned up the spill.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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