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A semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of sweet cream rolled over and spilled in Brigham City on Thursday.
Witnesses say that the truck's brakes were smoking as it came down the canyon on 1100 South toward Main Street, said Brigham City Interim Police Chief Mike Nelson. The truck was unable to stop for the red light, so the driver turned right to go north on Main when it rolled, Nelson said.
When it tipped over, 5,780 gallons of sweet cream spilled onto the road, Nelson said. Some of it went down the storm drain, but that just leads to a retention pond that's been closed off so that nothing leaves, he said. Besides bringing in an environmental company for assessment and cleanup, the Utah Department of Transportation was bringing in sand to "just put it on top of the sweet cream, because just to walk in it was really slippery." The sweet cream was on its way to Nebraska, Nelson said.
There is a brake check at the top of the hill that the truck was on, but investigators don't know yet if he stopped for a check, Nelson said.
No other vehicles were hit in the rollover, and the 59-year-old truck driver was taken to Brigham City Community Hospital with minor injuries, Nelson said.
The crash and spillage shut down at least the westbound and southbound lanes.
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