Applesauce
Highway 101 was closed for several hours, yesterday morning, when a a tractor carrying two flatbeds of apples spilled 10 tons of its contents all over the road.
The incident occurred just south of Petaluma near Kastania road when a truck driver, who was hauling apples from Maryville to Sebastopol, lost control of his tractor while driving in misty conditions. The truck driver, Robert Ubrins who hauls for Broadway Transportation in Stockton, stated that he lost control after hearing one of his cables snap. Upon hearing it he said the rear flatbed started “whipping” and scattered the apples all over the road. The apples covered about 200 to 300 feet of the pavement, some landing nearly 1000 feet away along the shoulders and median strip.
California Highway Patrol crews arrived at the scene at 9:45 a.m. upon which they closed off the northbound Highway 101 lane in South Sonoma County. “We got applesauce all over the highway,” stated California Highway Patrol officer Wayne Ziese “Right now, we’ve got apples piled two feet high on the roadside, and crews out here with brooms and shovels.” Urbins stated that he was driving 55 mph when the accident occurred, but he was still issued a traffic citation for the spilled load. The citation could end up costing him several hundred dollars.
According to CHP officer Ziese, there were no injuries in the accident but a motor home that was driving behind the flatbed truck did suffer some minor damage.
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Not bad ... but it would be more interesting to start off with something like:
ReplyDeleteTons of spilled apples shut down the northbound lane of Hwy. 101 near Petaluma yesterday morning after a trucker lost his load on a bumpy stretch of road.
This version gets the "where" and "why/how" into the lead, as well as the "what" and "when."
* shorter paragraphs, please (1-2 sentences, not 3-4)
* get rid of all the "upons" -- unnecessary word; it's just clogging up your sentences
* make each quote its own paragraph
* after the first reference, just call him Ziese
Good inverted pyramid; info is in the right order. Good closing paragraph.
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Oops, wrong grade. That should be 21/25.
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