Tractor-Trailer Filled With Frozen Chickens Overturns On I-64
January 12, 2009 - 1:38 pm
By Trevor Dickerson
A tractor-trailer accident on Interstate 64 early Monday morning snarled rush hour traffic for hours. A truck carrying 80,000 pounds of frozen chickens overturned on the eastbound side of the interstate at mile marker 181, just east of the Gaskins Road exit, around 3:00 a.m. State Police blocked off the center and left hand lanes after the accident, but had two out of three lanes open by the height of rush hour.
The truck driver, 60-year-old Carter H. Fulk, was transported to VCU Medical Center with injuries that did not appear to be life threatening. He has reportedly been charged with reckless driving.
Cleanup of the frozen whole chickens took the majority of the morning. Crews brought in a backhoe and other heavy equipment to assist with cleanup and turn the mangled truck upright again.
Sounds like a bit of fowl driving, if you ask me.
….that, or he was playing a game of chicken….
But on another note, with the fowl economy, it is a real shame to lose 80,000 pouinds of chicken – someone should have loaded the cargo into another truck and headed to nearby KFC or the Central VA Community Kitchen. And what about all those chickens that died in vein?