Truck hauling 17 million bees overturns
ASSOCIATED PRESS
05/26/2007
SCOTT CITY, Mo. - A truck driver hauling more than 17 million bees was
killed in an accident on Interstate 55.
Three southeast Missouri beekeepers were called in to help manage the
swarm of bees that escaped after the wreck.
The accident happened Thursday afternoon. The driver was identified Friday
as Alan Hunter, 37, of Richville, Minn.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said the tractor-trailer sideswiped a bridge
guardrail, went off the road and overturned in a soybean field. Hunter was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Firefighters sprayed the swarm, which could be seen for quite a distance
from the interstate, with foam to control them.
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