It was a messy cleanup on Highway 99 after a semi hauling potatoes overturned. Highway Patrol Officer Tomas Martinez says just before 7am Monday, a Freightliner hauling potatoes didn’t see slow traffic ahead of him in the northbound lanes near California Avenue, swerved to avoid a crash, but struck a Toyota 4-Runner…

The 4-runner then struck another vehicle. There was one minor injury. It took about two hours to clean up the potatoes, and some oil that spilled from one of the vehicles.

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