A truck which was carrying 42 thousand pounds (19 tons) of honey overturned in Los Angeles last Monday.

The honey flowed from the truck onto the highway. Clean-up operation was launched and four lanes of the highway had to be closed. A tow truck also arrived to lift the crashed truck.

No other cars were involved in the crash, and nobody was injured.

Difficult words: overturn (get upside down), launch (start), tow truck (truck which moves other trucks).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section

Difficult words: a bit of a sticky situation (the drivers were in a bad situation AND the drivers could not move because of the sticky honey), back up (to form traffic jams), shoulder (strip for stopping in an emergency), due to (because of), storm drain (canal where water goes to the ocean and rivers), tow truck (truck which pulls other vehicles).






Tow Truck -bärgningsbil

Overturn - vände upp och ner 

Launched - Lansering / startade 

A bit of a sticky Situation -En dålig situation 

Back up - bilda köer  

Due to - för att  beroende på 
Översättning
 EN lastbil som hade lasten 19 ton som är honung som vände sig upp och ner i Los Angeles förra Måndagen. Honungen ran från lastbilen till motorvägen. Ett sanerings företag var lanserade, och fyra körfält av motorvägen fick stängas. En bärgningsbil kom också för att lyfta den krockade bilen.  Ingen annan bil var inblandad i krocken och ingen blev skadad

A truck which was carrying 42 thousand pounds (19 tons) of honey overturned in Los Angeles last Monday.

The honey flowed from the truck onto the highway. Clean-up operation was launched and four lanes of the highway had to be closed.
 A tow truck also arrived to lift the crashed truck.

No other cars were involved in the crash, and nobody was injured.

Sammanfattning 

One day in Los Angeles there was  a truck which was carrying 19 tons of honey. The truck was driving on the highway  and an accident  happend. The truck  overturned and all the honey on the truck  floated  down to the highway, and the clean-up operation started to clean upp all the honey on the highway. And four lanes in the highway had to be closed. It way lucky that no nobody drove  in to the tuck or was injured.