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It was bell on wheels on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Monday morning after a veggie truck overturned and jettisoned thousands of orange and yellow peppers on the road.


  A truck overturned on the eastbound BQE near Exit 30, spilling yellow and orange bell peppers. NBC 4 A truck overturned on the eastbound BQE near Exit 30, spilling yellow and orange bell peppers. NBC 4

The truck toppled over a median around 7:14 a.m. — with its perishables peppering the roadway at Exit 30, which feeds into Brooklyn’s Flushing Avenue, photos of the scattered produce showed.

Authorities blocked off a lane of eastbound traffic to clean up the mess — which was still there more than three hours after the initial spill, according to New York’s 511 traffic reporting system.


  The eastbound lane was closed off during the cleanup. NBC 4 The eastbound lane was closed off during the cleanup. NBC 4

There were no reported injuries associated with the crash, NBC4 said.

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