A
truck spills 50,000 pounds of
potatoes, shuts down highway
A tractor-trailer overturned in Charlotte at about 2 a.m. Friday, spilling
50,000 pounds of raw potatoes and closing the road for hours. Troopers say the
truck driver told them he fell asleep at the wheel and hit a barrier wall and overturned. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that did **t appear to be serious. [Additional reporting by The Associated Press]
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