OPRAH WINFREY'S MAGAZINE SHUT DOWN I-35 IN JARRELL TEXAS MONDAY. BOTH SIDES OF THE INTERSTATE CLOSED AFTER THE DRIVER OF AN 18-WHEELER FELL ASLEEP AND CRASHED...AND AS K-E-Y-E'S GREGG WATSON REPORTS WORKERS SPENT HOURS PICKING UP MAGAZINES FROM THE ROADSIDE. OPRAH'S FACE IS PLASTERED ON THE COVER OF HER MAGAZINE AND ALL OVER THE ROAD HERE IN JARRELL. PIECES OF PAPER LITTER THE HIGHWAY AFTER WHAT TROOPERS SAY WAS A CRASH AND DASH. THEY SAY THE DRIVER FELL ASLEEP, HIT A CAR AND LEFT THE SCENE. ANT TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF OPRAH MAGAZINE BEFORE IT HITS NEWSSTANDS? THEN GRAB A COPY OFF THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. HUNDREDS HIT THE HIGHWAY IN JARRELL WHEN TROOPERS SAY 36-YEAR-OLD TRUCK DRIVER RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ, FELL ASLEEP, SMASHED A BROKEN DOWN OLDSMOBILE, AND OVERTURNED. THE CRASH BLOCKED BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD FOR A WHILE BUT TROOPERS TELL US THAT'S NOT ALL. Robbie Barrera DPS Spokesperson "The driver fled the scene he felt there was somebody inside the vehicle injured and he started walking toward Georgetown and Georgetown PD picked him up on the side of the road and took him back to the scene of the crash." HE WAS CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO STOP AND RENDER INFORMATION. MEANWHILE TEX DOT WORKERS SPENT THREE HOURS CLEANING UP OPRAH'S NEWEST ISSUE. TAX PAYERS WON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS. John Hurt Tex Dot Spokesperson "Typically when you have an accident like this the carriers insurance company will be billed for our time and our equipment any material we used like absorbents for fuel spills like we did this morning." THE CRASH HAPPENED ON THE START OF NATIONAL DROWSY DRIVING PREVENTION WEEK. FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES TRUCKERS GET TEN HOURS OF REST PER SHIFT. TROOPERS SAY RODRIGUEZ WAS DRIVING ON EIGHT HOURS REST. Hector Benavives Longhorn Driving School "Driving drowsy can be very dangerous especially if you're going on long trips tend to fall asleep and develop highway hypnosis." TROOPERS SAY RODRIGUEZ PASSED A DRUG AND ALCOHOL SCREENING AND THAT HIS LOG BOOK AND RECORDS WERE UP TO DATE