Thousands of spilled pepperoni pizzas cause motorway chaos as delivery lorry crashes scattering its load all over the road

A TRUCK full of pizzas crashed on a busy motorway, creating a tomato and cheese slick that sparked traffic chaos.

An 18-wheeler containing DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pepperoni pizzas scraped a bridge support and sliced open its trailer Wednesday, spilling the pies across Interstate 30 just south of Little Rock in Arkansas.

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Highway officials shut down westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate for four hours so crews could pick up pizza.

Agency spokesman Danny Straessle said the bridge suffered only cosmetic damage.

He says "there were some people shaken up" but that no one was hurt.

The westbound section of I-30 was closed for four hours and was closed eastbound for an hour too while crews cleared away the mess.

Straessle says the pizza sauce, the cheese and pepperoni, plus some spilled diesel left a "slippery spot."

There was no word on who missed out on pizza deliveries because of the accident.

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Last week holidaymakers faced 90-minute delays on the M5 in Gloucestershire after a lorry overturned spilling diesel and 24 tonnes of FLOUR over the motorway – causing SIX-mile long traffic jams.

The huge vehicle flipped on its side after a crash with a car towing a caravan at around 4.30am.

Shocking images showed the lorry lying on its side with a saloon car sticking out of the fabric cargo bay, beside a huge pile of white powder.