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Crews cleanup hundreds of masks dropped on Bay Area freeway
The incident shut down the flow of traffic on southbound I-880 near the Whipple Road off-ramp in Alameda County for a short period of time Wednesday afternoon.
UNION CITY, Calif. (KTVU) - Traffic on southbound Interstate 880 in Union City was brought to a standstill Wednesday afternoon after hundreds of face masks spilled onto the roadway.
The incident occurred around 1:39 p.m. near the Whipple Road off-ramp.
According to the California Highway Patrol traffic log, a caller reported that someone threw the face masks from a vehicle, although authorities have not yet confirmed how they ended up on the highway.
A KTVU viewer told us she was in a Union City OO Liquor store on Whipple Road when a distraught truck driver came in and said the masks had fallen off his truck.
CHP officers stopped traffic for a short period of time as Caltrans crews picked up the masks.