Truck full of bananas crashes, blocks I-15 traffic near St. Rose

A tow truck prepares to move a damaged semitrailer that was hauling about 79,000 pounds of bananas on Friday, July 21, 2017, following a crash along northbound Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway in southern Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph

A tow truck lifts the trailer portion of a semitrailer containing about 79,000 pounds of bananas on Friday, July 21, 2017, following a crash along northbound Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway in southern Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph

Tow trucks are used to pull up the trailer portion of a semitrailer containing about 79,000 pounds of bananas on Friday, July 21, 2017, following a crash along northbound Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway in southern Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph

A tow truck driver walks past the damaged trailer portion of a semitrailer containing about 79,000 pounds of bananas on Friday, July 21, 2017, following a crash along northbound Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway in southern Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph

Tow truck drivers assess the situation as they prepare to pull up the trailer portion of a semitrailer containing about 79,000 pounds of bananas on Friday, July 21, 2017, following a crash along northbound Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway in southern Las Vegas. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph

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By Max Michor Las Vegas Review-Journal

July 21, 2017 - 9:29 am

Updated July 21, 2017 - 9:52 am

About 79,000 pounds of bananas were declared unfit for human consumption Friday morning after the tractor-trailer hauling them crashed in the southern Las Vegas Valley.

No one was injured when the truck, traveling north on Interstate 15 near St. Rose Parkway, crashed into the center median, said Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Jason Buratczuk.

Buratczuk said the bananas did not spill onto the highway, but the trailer was breached, so Southern Nevada Health District inspectors condemned the load.

The left two lanes of the freeway will be closed for a few hours while the Highway Patrol tows the truck and bananas away, Buratczuk said.

Contact Max Michor at mmichor@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @MaxMichor on Twitter.

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