Ketchup crash creates red sea on Reno highway

Someone order some fries, quick! Better make it an extra large!

A tractor-trailer carrying more than 42,000 pounds of bottled Heinz ketchup crashed Thursday near Reno, spilling the red condiment all over a highway, Gawker.com reported.

After the driver swerved to avoid another vehicle on westbound Interstate 80 near the Robb Drive overpass, the truck’s cargo container was torn open when the tractor-trailer hit a center divider and knocked over a light pole, sending thousands of ketchup bottles crashing onto the roadway, reported the Reno Gazette-Journal.

“I have red everywhere on the highway,� Sgt. Janay Sherven with the Nevada Highway Patrol told the newspaper. “No bodies, no people, just ketchup.�

So how do you clean up 42,000 pounds of ketchup? Sherven said crews had to pour sand on the mess then use snowplows to clear the area.

Talk about a sticky situation.

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