{"id":458693,"date":"2026-09-09T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458693\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:00:10","slug":"grape-spill-triggers-crash-shuts-down-highway-121-near-schellville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/458693\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape spill triggers crash, shuts down Highway 121 near Schellville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California Highway Patrol temporarily closed Highway 121 outside Schellville Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, after a big rig spilled grapes in the roadway, causing a crash.<\/p>\n

From preliminary reports, it is believed the truck was heading north on Highway 121, also known as Highway 12, near Napa Road about 7:45 a.m. as the grape bins fell off the truck into the southbound lane, according to CHP spokesperson Marc Renspurger. One car rear-ended another car in the southbound lane as the drivers attempted to avoid colliding with the bins.<\/p>\n

At about 8:30 a.m., CHP advised motorists to avoid the area in an announcement sent via X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

At 9 a.m., CHP posted an update explaining Highway 121 was closed in Sonoma County from Napa Road to Ramal Road.<\/p>\n

\"SeveralSeveral bins of grapes fell off a big rig truck traveling north on Highway 121 outside Schellville, causing a car crash and subsequent lane closures Sept. 9, 2026. (California Highway Patrol Napa)<\/p>\n

CalTrans arrived on scene to clean up the grapes, Renspurger said. Cleaning up the road was essential to avoiding the road becoming slick from the sugary grapes, he said.<\/p>\n

CHP announced the road reopened in both directions at 10:35 a.m.<\/p>\n

Authorities said no injuries were reported in the incident.<\/p>\n

You can reach Staff Writer Kyle Garcia Takata at kyle.garciatakata@pressdemocrat.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol temporarily closed Highway 121 outside Schellville Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, after a big rig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,180937],"class_list":["post-458693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-grape-spill-highway-121-schellville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}