Semi crash spills beer on Glenn Highway

A 46-year-old truck driver escaped with minor injuries Tuesday morning when his tractor-trailer overturned and spilled a load of beer near Mile 107 of the Glenn Highway.

The area was at the bottom of a hill near Caribou Pass, according to a post on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Facebook page credited to Ken Barkley, deputy director of fire and rescue for the borough.

According to an Alaska State Trooper dispatch, the single-vehicle crash occurred around 11:30 a.m., slowing traffic and closing one lane of the Glenn.

Cases and kegs of beer — much of it Alaskan Brewing Co. products — were strewn across the roadway and into the ditch.

The semi was registered to Lynden Transport. Troopers said the company was assisting in the cleanup. The driver, Dante Cuaresma, was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to troopers, who wrote that Department of Transportation and state Commercial Vehicle Enforcement representatives responded to the scene.