Friday, September 27, 2019

Eggs Fall Off Truck Onto PA Roadway

In Hegins Township, PA, a load of eggs fell off of a truck onto the roadway making it far less than egg-scellent driving conditions.  The driver of the truck said the containers fell over easy as the load shifted.  Motorists said it was no yolk  to drive on, especially where the road was dippy allowing the material to lay in the roadway.  Police worried that motorists rolling along too fast could be toast, having to shell out a lot of cash if there was a crack-up.  Cleanup crews scrambled to the site and hatched up a cleanup plan to remove the debris before a fowl smell developed.  Local resident flocked to the scene to chick'en on the situation.



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136,000 eggs fall off truck into a Pennsylvania highway
whdh.com - 17 hours ago (9/26/19)


CNN) — Call it a brunch rush gone wrong.

More than 136,000 eggs spilled onto Route 125 in Hegins Township, Pennsylvania Tuesday morning when a tractor-trailer’s load shifted, causing the eggs to fall.

Joseph Miles, 66, was delivering the eggs, already fertilized, to an incubator. He was driving through the township Tuesday morning around 9 a.m., going north on Route 125.

He was also driving uphill.

As Miles approached an intersection on the highway, the load in the truck shifted and hundreds of thousands of eggs poured onto the road down the hill.

Yolk was running over the section of the highway forcing a closure of the section for several hours, the Republican Herald reported.

The Hegins Valley Fire and Rescue planned on using about 20,000 gallons of water to wash down the highway, after the shell bits and carton pieces were cleared, said Brian Musolino, Hegins Township emergency management coordinator, according to the Republican Herald.

“We’re just going to wash them into the field and let mother nature take its course,” Musolino said

As far as Miles, though, the Hegins Township Police Chief Beau Yarmush told the Republican Herald the department will continue investigating his unsecured egg load.

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