Comments on: 6 Really Strange Truck Spills

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:04:00 +0000

About 15 years ago I was driving northbound on I5 in WA state. I was on my way home from work at about 1 in the morning through some dense fog. I started noticing some dim shapes in the road, and as I slowed down, I noticed something moving not only in the road but on the dividers as well. Turns out that a truck hauling live chickens had jackknifed just north of me and there were chickens everywhere, alive and dead, some caged some not. I vividly remember a chicken walking down the divider slowly, making me think of something like “Chickens in the mist”.
It remains one of the most surreal things I have witnessed.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:41:00 +0000

Probably 15 years ago my husband & I were driving from Chattanooga to Atlanta on I70. We watched as a semi in the center lane heading north very slowly tipped over. As it fell, the side ripped open and all these cows came tumbling out the side. It was surreal slow motion and the truck finally skidded to a stop on its side leaving a trail of cows in the median. Some were obviously dead. Some couldn’t stand or were just lying on their sides. Some were just standing stunned. I looked for it on the news that night but never saw any coverage.

By: Dayton Scott

Dayton Scott — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:57:00 +0000

When i was in high school one of my jobs was working for a wrecker service cleaning up truck wrecks, ive seen oranges, diapers, 2×4’s, and toilets. but by far the worst was a truck load of suavitel fabric softener, we had to sort through all of it and save the jugs that werent busted and after about 6 hours of being in a trailer covered in the stuff i never want to use it… ever.

By: erin

erin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:52:00 +0000

its not a semi tipping over, but the truck carrying the worlds largest coal bucket didn’t follow the suggested route and clipped the bottom out of an overpass in Madison, WI in 2006.

Similarly, it seems that a truck driver protesting the building of a concrete factory (to use the train tracks) in Oregon, WI drove through the train bridge. They finished fixing it this summer, a few years later, and rebuilt the bridge, but at least its possible for two vehicles to drive under it now.

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:42:00 +0000

When I was a kid in the early 1970s, I heard about an accident in a large city where Playboy magazines spilled out of a truck and all over the road. The men in the vicinity went crazy grabbing the latest issue for free!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:55:00 +0000

While living in Atlanta we had a McDonald’s refrigerated cargo truck overturn on the interstate in the middle of the summer. The raw beef quickly began to thaw and stick to the road. The only way it could be removed was by scraping the road with a small bulldozer which lead to the road needing to be resurfaced.

Last week in my hometown of Huntsville a grain truck full of rape seed (what canola oil is made from) overturned and spilled all over the highway. This lead to a multiday cleanup as the warm road began rendering the very slick oil from the seeds.

By: Best headlight

Best headlight — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:22:00 +0000

Those are some wild pictures and stories. We had a truck full of cows overturn on the highway between Greensboro and Raleigh. The whole highway was closed down for hours and it was funny to watch the state tropers try and corral the cows. One of the cows got pissed and went after the troopers and put a big dent in one of their cars.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:47:00 +0000

dude representing sugar land right here! i live there and saw it happen it was weird im telling you

By: Bubba Gump

Bubba Gump — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:17:00 +0000

RobertSeattle is right, back in the early ’80s a truck hauling missles from the now defunct Rock Flats flipped over @ 25&70. It made the news, but only briefly….hmmm

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned this one: Condom truck tips, spills load