---
title: "Arkansas Semi-Truck Crash Spills Thousands of Frozen Pizzas onto Highway"
description: "It's not delivery...it's all over Interstate 30."
date: "2017-08-10"
modified: "2017-08-11"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/13399/arkansas-semi-truck-crash-spills-thousands-of-frozen-pizzas-onto-highway"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Crash"
  - "highway"
  - "Pizza"
  - "Semi Truck"
---

# Arkansas Semi-Truck Crash Spills Thousands of Frozen Pizzas onto Highway

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Authorities in Little Rock, Arkansas had a zesty mess on their hands Wednesday when a semi-truck carrying a full load of DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pizzas struck a low overpass, causing the trailer to rip open and spill the icy pies over a huge stretch of highway, [*ArkansasOnline.com* reports*.*](<https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/aug/09/truck-spills-frozen-pizzas-i-30-little-rock-westbo/?breaking>)

The truck was traveling west on Interstate 30 when the top of the trailer clipped the Mabelvale Pike overpass, tearing the trailer and causing the tractor to jackknife and detach. Thankfully, the driver was uninjured. The pizzas? Not so much.

"There's a lot of frozen pizzas laying out on the interstate right now," Arkansas Department of Transportation Department spokesman Danny Straessle told *ArkansasOnline* just after the accident. "Lots of pizza fatalities."

While pizzas are certainly [preferable to slimy hagfish](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/12470/eel-coated-oregon-highway-crash-looks-like-a-scene-from-ghostbusters>) when it comes to [highway spills,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7460/maple-syrup-spill-closes-vermont-highway>) a frozen pie that slowly defrosts in the blazing sun makes its own kind of special mess. Video from the scene shows an endless sea of smashed boxes and pepperoni pizzas, many of which wind up smeared into the pavement as crews bring in large front-loaders to scoop up the bigger piles. It reportedly took workers more than four hours to clean it all up. \[*Insert your own "30 minutes or less" joke here.* —Ed\]

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## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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