WATCH: Massive Pizza Spill On Interstate 30 In Little Rock, Arkansas

Who doesn't love free pizzas? No one, is the most likely answer, but how about when the pizzas are spilled on the street?
On Wednesday, frozen pizzas were spilled onto Interstate 30 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the incident stalled traffic for miles in every direction for hours.
An 18-wheeler truck containing DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pizzas scraped a bridge support that wedged its trailer open, spilling the pizzas in front of the office of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, according to the reports. The crash took place around 1 p.m. EDT about a mile east of the Interstate 30.
“But there's a lot of frozen pizzas laying out on the interstate right now. Lots of pizza fatalities,” Arkansas Department of Transportation Department spokesman Danny Straessle told a local news website, Arkansasonline.com.
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The transportation department shut down the west bound lanes for four hours after the incident and continued to update people about the situation on Twitter.
We need more dough FOR highways, not ON highways! Take our survey at https://t.co/VNGW3rVXfG and share your thoughts! pic.twitter.com/0Y3CGqNek6
— Arkansas Department of Transportation (@myARDOT) August 10, 2017
Pulaski Co: A section of I- 30 has been closed due to priority maintenance. https://t.co/eUiW0xLItg for information. #artraffic
— Arkansas Department of Transportation (@myARDOT) August 10, 2017
All the lanes were opened by 5:30 p.m. EDT, reports said. Meanwhile, social media users posted some hilarious reactions on Twitter regarding the incident.
The pizzas are actually really slick. @myARDOT is using front loaders to get pizza off road, but it may take pressure washer.
— Winnie Wright (@WinnieWrightTV) August 9, 2017
FREE PIZZA ON I-30! https://t.co/kB7akosclc
— Maybe: AJ (@AJisTweeting) August 9, 2017
This wasn't the first time this year that such an incident took place. In July, an Oregon highway was “slimed’ when a truck carrying eels overturned and turned the coastal road into a mushy mess.
In a picture shared by the Oregon State Police on Twitter, several damaged cars covered with eels could be seen.
What to tell the #drycleaner? pic.twitter.com/2QyxSriiGq
— Oregon State Police (@ORStatePolice) July 13, 2017
The Depoe Bay Fire Department later shared a video of the incident that showed some workers trying to clear the eels from the highway.
HWY 101 mp 131 just got slimed. Fortunately no injuries. pic.twitter.com/jyBoZovzaz
— Depoe Bay Fire Dist. (@DepoeBayFire) July 13, 2017
Police said driver Salvatore Tragale was driving north with 13 containers holding 7,500 pounds of hagfish, also known as slime eels, according to reports.
While Salvatore approached a construction site on the road and tried stopping the vehicle, one container flew off the truck bed and slammed into a few vehicles nearby, causing minor injuries to several people. The other containers on the truck bed then spilled and caused a mess on the highway.
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On a different note, a survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics gave an insight into the risks faced by the pizza delivery drivers. At least 20 of them were shot in the country in 2014 alone.
Speaking about the issue, Ronald Strehle, an officer with the Dayton Ohio Police Department, told an online publication, "Things started going south for truck drivers in 2010. Over the course of one summer, we saw [driver] robberies go up by 400 percent," he said.
He speculated word of mouth was spreading fast among would-be criminals: pizza drivers are soft targets, since they work alone, are presumably unarmed, and carry cash and food.
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