{"id":40029,"date":"2016-05-26T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40029"},"modified":"2016-05-26T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T12:01:53","slug":"tomatoes-tomatoes-and-tomatoes-everywhere-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/05\/tomatoes-tomatoes-and-tomatoes-everywhere-after-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes, Tomatoes, and Tomatoes Everywhere after Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40030\" title=\"Tomatoes on Lee Blvd\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomatoes-on-Lee-Blvd-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomatoes-on-Lee-Blvd-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tomatoes-on-Lee-Blvd.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A busy Lehigh Acres roadway was shut down and a significant cleanup followed after a truck carrying thousands of tomatoes flipped over Wednesday afternoon at Gunnery Road and Lee Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the truck slammed on its brakes and swerved to avoid a car making a U-turn, prompting the spill. No serious injuries resulted, but witnesses said the driver of the truck was limping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole street was just covered with tomatoes. Looked like green apples,&#8221; said Robert Browder of Lehigh Acres. &#8220;My sister gave me a call to come up and get some tomatoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crews using heavy machinery handled the cleanup of the tomatoes that wound up on the road, and the truck also leaked fluid after it tipped.<\/p>\n<p>The car that was involved was towed from the area. The truck had to be up righted.<\/p>\n<p>The produce company said there was no saving the tomatoes that were scraped from the asphalt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see any oil,&#8221; said Enrique Perez of Lehigh Acres. &#8220;All I saw was gasoline leaking a lot, like over an hour. All that tomato all that waste is unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Lehigh Acres roadway was shut down and a significant cleanup followed after a truck carrying thousands of tomatoes flipped over Wednesday afternoon at Gunnery Road and Lee Boulevard.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}