Friday, March 23, 2007
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A truck carrying about 4,200 live chickens overturned Thursday on a section of N.C. 18 in southwest Catawba County, killing some of the chickens and scattering the rest across the surrounding area.
Catawba County Fire Marshal David Pruitt said the birds were being taken to a Case Farms processing plant in Morganton when the truck swerved off the shoulder and flipped about 6:30 a.m.
Pruitt was not sure how many of the chickens were killed but guessed that about half survived. The driver was not seriously injured.
The highway was closed for nearly five hours while the Highway Patrol investigated the wreck and firefighters cleaned up a diesel leak. Crews from Case Farms, meanwhile, loaded the surviving birds, which were scurrying around the road, into one truck and the dead chickens into another.
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