How ’bout dem apples? Fruit spill closes part of I-70

Thursday, February 14, 2019

CLOVERDALE -- A semi loaded with apples overturned on Interstate 70 west of Cloverdale Thursday morning, closing the interstate for a couple of hours, according to information from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT).

The westbound semi overturned some time before 10 a.m., spilling its load of apples across the lanes of the interstate at the 38-mile marker, three miles west of Cloverdale in southwestern Putnam County.

One lane of westbound I-70 was closed between Cloverdale (U.S. 231) and Putnamville (State Road 243) during the majority of the clean-up effort.

About 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Indiana State Police Putnamville Public Information Officer Matt Ames tweeted out that all lanes of Interstate 70 had been reopened at the 38-mile marker.

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