Map-A-Spill special edition: Burger and beer spills spawn best news lead ever

Keith

Bravo, Steve Gherke of The Salt Lake Tribune. Perfect lead sentence in the following news story from this past Tuesday.

I added the sub-heads and excerpted the full story. Please note that no one was injured in either accident.

As of this posting, we have no reports of incidents involving onion rings.

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We added this to Map-A-Spill (the first Utah site!)

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Burger image © Stocksnapper - Fotolia.com
Beers image © dethchimo - Fotolia.com

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Truck accidents spill burgers on I-15,
drench I-84 with beer

Red meat and beer clogged major traffic arteries Tuesday, slowing the morning commute.

THE BURGERS
Motorists on Interstate 15 were impeded by piles of hamburgers after a truck spilled a load of the patties, blocking the northbound lanes for four hours.

The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of hamburger patties dozed off around 5 a.m., said Utah Highway Patrol trooper Cameron Roden …

THE BEER
A second truck spill east of Morgan caused minor delays.

Before 7:30 a.m., a truck was heading westbound on Interstate 84 about a half-mile east of Morgan. The driver was traveling too fast for the snowy conditions there and lost control, Roden said.

The truck slipped off to the left, hit a guardrail, and flipped over on its side. The impact split the truck open, spilling Fat Tire Beer being shipped from Colorado, Roden said.

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By Keith

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