SACRAMENTO — A car fire and an overturned big rig caused a big traffic mess on southbound Interstate 5 in Sacramento Friday morning.
The first incident happened just after 4 a.m. near the Sutterville Road offramp. A semi-truck that was hauling hay overturned, spilling the hay all over the freeway.
Then, just a couple hundred yards from the overturned hay truck, a car caught fire.
No injuries were reported in either incident, California Highway Patrol says, but the freeway was left severely congested.
All southbound I-5 lanes were closed at Sutterville Road through the early morning hours, but some traffic was moving on the right shoulder. Drivers were being urged to detour through Highway 99…