Pasta Truck Spill Turns UK Highway Into Real Spaghetti Junction

Many British commuters were justifiably cheesed off Monday morning when a freeway was blocked for hours.

The reason: 20 tons of pasta and bolognese sauce spilled from a truck.

The accident happened on the A5 highway near Shropshire, England, according to HuffPost UK and caused the road to be blocked in both directions.

For some reason, the pasta wasn’t packaged and managed to cover 100 yards of the road, according to the Shropshire Star.

Strands of spaghetti dangled from the wheels and the front section of the truck, the paper reported.

No one was hurt by the pasta catastrophe but the road had to be closed for several hours until the spaghetti and meat sauce was cleaned up.

“The food is so thick and gloopy that it will take several hours to clear it up,” a police spokesman told reporters.

The driver declined to comment about the accident, preferring to pass the time sitting in his cab.

Still, the accident managed to inspire its fair share of saucy tweets, many involving the pun “Spaghetti Junction,” a nickname given to freeway interchanges that are so complex or intertwined that they resemble a plate of pasta.