sidedown safeway truck

A Safeway store store big-rig overturned on the new "S" curve of the Bay Bridge blocking all but one lane in the West bound direction in Oakland, CA, on Wednesday October 14, 2009.

Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle

Bay Bridge reopens after crash on upper deck
Where has that guy been? A truck driver who hasn't heard of the new Bay Bridge span??
even if he's from Bakersfield. A truck driver! You'd think his employer, Safeway, would inform him of such news.

Watch this CBS video showing how horrendously backed-up the traffic got.

has got to be one of the worst places to be in America on Wednesday.

S-curve crash shows why Bay Bridge changes needed, CBS video later that evening