Tomatoes, pumpkin smashed in crash

PULP and juice made a muddy turf salad as it dripped through the tracks of an excavator doing clean-up work beside the Bruce Hwy, near Glenwood, yesterday.

"That's red gold," said one onlooker of the squishy carpet of tomatoes that marked the site of a grocery truck crash early yesterday morning.

At up to $12 a kilo in the stores, the many thousands of southbound tomatoes, lost in the Glenwood accident, were worth a fortune one minute and nothing at all the next.

Smashed butternut pumpkins, at around $6 a kilo, also littered the ground beside the crash scene yesterday.

It all added to up to a swagman's feast, if one had been nearby to take advantage.

Maryborough police said a southbound semitrailer laden with produce for the Brisbane markets had overturned off the Bruce Hwy.

"We were notified at 2.21am.

"The driver got out with no injuries," the spokesman said.