Hundreds of frozen pizzas left on highway after truck crashes

Crews used a tractor to clean up the mess.
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Brian Koerber
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Pizza lovers suffered a huge loss on Wednesday after a truck crash left a highway littered with boxes of frozen pizza.

Westbound traffic on I-30 near Little Rock, Arkansas, was at a standstill on Wednesday as cleaning crews attempted to remove remnants of the wreck from the road. It appears as if most of the pizzas were Tombstone and Digiorno.

The mess was so large that the state needed to bring out a tractor to help scoop up the wasted pies.

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Aside from the loss of pizza, the Arkansas Department of Transportation reports that there were no injuries in the crash.

According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the crash occurred when the truck hit the Mabelvale Pike overpass, which tore the tractor's trailer to shreds, spilling the pizzas and diesel fuel all over the highway in the process. The overpass did not sustain any major damage in the crash.

The highway was briefly shut down, though traffic was able to pass using the shoulder during part of the cleanup.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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