Traffic & Transit
Animal Waste Spill Cleaned Up From Southwest Freeway
Messy Morning Traffic: A mishap involving a lost load of animal waste tied up traffic on northbound lanes of Interstate 69 Tuesday morning.
SUGAR LAND, TX — A sordid mess of animal parts and waste that littered the left lanes of Interstate 69 during Tuesday morning rush hour was finally cleaned up several hours later.
All lanes on I-69 nortbound from Sugar Land were reopened shortly before noon, several hours after the mishap near Williams Trace Boulevard.
The incident caused a smelly traffic mess that backed up traffic south of First Colony Boulevard and to State Highway 6.
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No one was injured in the incident. Hazmat crews from the Texas Department of Transportation were sent to clean up the animal waste.
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