Badges - Driver stops for ducks, causes rollover crash
- From: Charles Rahn <c.t.rahn@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Badges 1Badge <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 00:21:52 -0400
Driver stops for ducks, causes rollover crash on I-95, FHP saysA Brinks armored
truck rolled over trying to avoid hitting the stopped car.Ducks ? or, more
specifically, a driver who stopped to help some ducks ? caused a rollover crash
on Interstate 95 in Volusia County on Wednesday, the Florida Highway Patrol
said.Troopers said the crash happened just after 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon,
near the State Road 421 exit in the Port Orange area.An unidentified driver had
stopped in the roadway after spotting a mother duck and her ducklings trying to
cross the road ? unbeknownst to a Brinks armored truck driver who was
approaching from behind.Troopers said the Brinks driver saw the car and swerved
to avoid it, and the truck rolled over and barreled off the road. The driver
who had stopped drove away before emergency crews arrived, troopers said.Those
in the Brinks truck suffered only minor injuries, and were not hospitalized.
Due to the design of the truck, they needed assistance from emergency workers
to escape, troopers said.The mother duck was killed in the mayhem, but her
ducklings survived. Volusia County Animal Control was called to the scene.The
Brinks driver told troopers he thought the driver of the car was female, but
investigators had no firm description or leads Wednesday evening.However, FHP
Sgt. Kim Montes said it was clear that the driver who stopped on the busy
highway was in the wrong, and could easily have caused more harm than a duck
fatality."We understand that [the driver] wanted to save the ducklings," Montes
said, but he or she "could have killed somebody."
Lesson to be learned, don't stop for animals on the roadway.
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