Wet cement spilled across the roadway on Route 1 in Peabody, Massachusetts, Thursday afternoon, prompting police to divert northbound traffic.
Drivers taking Route 1 north were diverted to Route 128 at Bertucci's restaurant for about two hours after the cement truck spilled what it was carrying around 1:30 p.m., Massachusetts State Police said.
Firefighters were seen spraying down the roadway with a fire hose.
Police haven't said when they expect the road to be reopened but officers who'd previously been diverting traffic were seen allowing drivers to pass the incident in the left lane around 3:15 p.m. The roadway was fully reopened about 3:30 p.m., police said.
It wasn't clear what caused the cement spill. Police only said, in a statement, that "a cement truck lost its load of wet cement across all lanes of traffic."
