{"id":4235,"date":"2026-03-19T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/road-to-nowhere-california-drivers-stuck-for-9-hours-as-syrup-spill-leaves-freeway-glazed-and-confused\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:33","slug":"road-to-nowhere-california-drivers-stuck-for-9-hours-as-syrup-spill-leaves-freeway-glazed-and-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/road-to-nowhere-california-drivers-stuck-for-9-hours-as-syrup-spill-leaves-freeway-glazed-and-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to nowhere: California drivers stuck for 9 hours as syrup spill leaves freeway glazed and confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-03-19 12:22:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A stretch of California highway turned into a giant breakfast\u2011topping disaster after a truck overturned and unleashed a sticky tsunami of syrup across the 10 Freeway \u2014 leaving crews in a real jam for nearly nine hours.<BR><br \/>\nThe California Highway Patrol said the truck flipped in the westbound lanes in Fontana on Monday (16.03.26), spilling hundreds of gallons of syrup straight onto the tarmac. <BR><br \/>\nDrivers expecting the usual rush\u2011hour grind instead found themselves stuck in a scene that looked more like a runaway pancake commercial.<BR><br \/>\nCleanup teams quickly realised this wasn\u2019t going to be a quick wipe\u2011down. Caltrans first tried using absorbent material, but the syrup proved far too clingy, turning the road into something resembling a giant toffee apple. With the situation getting stickier by the minute, a water truck was called in to hose the freeway back to its non\u2011glazed state.<BR><br \/>\nThe westbound lanes stayed shut for almost nine hours while crews battled the sugary spill, finally reopening around 8pm \u2014 long after the syrup had lost its shine.<BR><br \/>\nNo injuries were reported.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-03-19 12:22:31 A stretch of California highway turned into a giant breakfast\u2011topping disaster after a truck overturned and unleashed a sticky tsunami of syrup across the 10 Freeway \u2014 leaving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}