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title: "Semi-Truck Carrying 44,000 Pounds of Nutella Crashes on Indiana Highway"
description: "BYO crepes."
date: "2019-09-18"
modified: "2019-09-18"
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  - name: "Chris Tsui"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/29899/semi-truck-carrying-44000-pounds-of-nutella-crashes-on-indiana-highway"
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  - "News"
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# Semi-Truck Carrying 44,000 Pounds of Nutella Crashes on Indiana Highway

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Grocers and convenience stores might have to wait a little longer for their latest shipments of hazelnut [cocoa-flavored](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25445/candy-factory-accident-paves-german-street-with-chocolate>) bread sauce after a semi-truck carrying 44,000 pounds of Nutella [rolled over on a highway](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29278/semi-truck-crash-in-germany-spills-over-10000-bottles-of-beer-on-autobahn>) in Indiana.

According to [Indiana](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/28419/indiana-gearheads-map-out-nurburgring-replica-on-us-roads-and-you-can-drive-it-for-charity>) State Police, it happened sometime after 9 p.m. Monday on the westbound lanes of I-94 around a half-mile west of the state's border with Michigan. The Freightliner was traveling from London, Ontario when a car reportedly slammed on its brakes, causing the semi driver to brake hard and veer to the left, losing control, hitting the concrete median, and eventually putting the tractor and trailer on their sides with the tractor laying on the opposing, eastbound lanes.

The incident is being classified as a single-vehicle rollover and no injuries have been reported.

![message-editor%2F1568816159933-2019-9-17-roll-over\_crop.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1568816159933-2019-9-17-roll-over_crop.jpg>)
*Indiana State Police*

![message-editor%2F1568816164291-2019-9-17-roll-over-3\_crop.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1568816164291-2019-9-17-roll-over-3_crop.jpg>)
*Indiana State Police*

Judging from the police report and photos, it doesn't look like much of the payload leaked out of the trailer and onto the roadway but the truck apparently spilled 150 gallons of [diesel](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29341/gmc-celebrates-the-diesel-engines-birthday-with-most-diesel-photo-lineup>) into the median. Look for heavily-discounted, suspiciously scuffed-up jars of the sweet [brown stuff](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/27733/septic-truck-that-couldnt-hold-it-in-dumps-eight-tons-of-human-feces-on-public-road-report>) at a Chinatown dime store soon. The Nutella, we mean. Not the diesel.

Hazelnut spread supply chain woes aside, the overturned trailer blocked all three westbound lanes, closing that direction of the highway completely for two-and-a-half hours, causing traffic to be diverted off in Michigan. The trailer was moved to the shoulder and removed the next day.

h/t: [*Detroit Free Press*](<https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/09/17/semi-truck-overturns-nutella-94-highway/2351517001/>)

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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