An overturned big rig sent shattered glass across a major freeway interchange near downtown Los Angeles Monday morning, shutting it for hours, officials said.
The truck had collided with a car on the southbound 5-to-eastbound 60 freeway transition, blocking the road and leaking fuel as well as littering the roadway with glass shards, the California Highway Patrol said.
A Sig Alert was issued at 6:10 a.m., about 20 minutes after the truck jackknifed following a collision with a silver car, CHP officer Alex Rubios said. The Sig Alert was canceled about 5 hours later, and the road was reopened at about 11 a.m.
Both drivers suffered only minor injuries, fire officials said. One person was taken to a hospital.
The driver's son, Eugene Ivanov, said his father, Nick Ivanov, didn't know how the truck turned over.
"He felt the truck lose traction and then it just flipped over," Eugene Ivanov said, translating for his Ukrainian father.
This stretch of highway is part of Ivanov's normal route, and Eugene said they hoped a camera installed in the truck would help them piece together what happened.
The CHP was investigating what led up to the crash as well.
