[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] food truck caught in a gnarly standstill on the westbound 105 after a fatal accident Friday morning made the most patriotic gesture imaginable in Los Angeles — it opened up and started offering service to drivers.
The owner of the truck, Carlos Chavez, told L.A. Taco in an interview that his employees were en route to LAX, where they've been vendors permitted to sell inside terminal security to LAX employees for the past ten years.
"El freeway so paró con la explosion and they ended up stuck there with everyone else," Chavez said. "And since people knew we had food, people started approaching us and asking for something to eat."
A Fox 11 news chopper happened upon the scene while scanning the stalled freeway after the early morning accident. The crash involved a fuel tanker that burst into a fireball, reports said. Two people were killed.
The accident occurred around 5:15 am in the Hawthorne area near Crenshaw Boulevard, during the early east-to-west rush to LAX and the beach cities. Then the lonchera came to the rescue.