Wednesday morning at 4:30 am Highway 126/Ventura St. was closed down between Highway 23/A Street and Central Ave for almost three hours as Fillmore City Police, City Fire Crews and Cal Trans had to clean up the diesel fuel that covered the highway and remove two rigs involved in an accident.

One of the rigs, owned by Carpinteria Motor Transit, was hit while parked on the south side of the highway between A and Olive Streets. The driver had stopped to purchase some donuts from Moonlight Donuts in the Baldwin Shopping Center and was just about to clean his rear view mirror on his passenger side, when another big rig traveling east bound hit the parked rigs in the rear, blowing out one of the parked rig’s back tires. The east bound rig then continued moving side swiping the parked rig and finally jackknifed to a stop, landing up on the parkway in front of Papa Loys Liquor Store before spilling its diesel.