Hot Dog Truck Crash on Highway Makes Mess That Surprises Fire Chief: ‘Hot Dogs Are Very Slippery — I Did Not Know That’

A multi-vehicle clang connected a Pennsylvania road turned into a frank disaster aft thousands of stiff basking dogs spilled crossed nan highway.

The Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company shared connected Facebook that they responded to a multi-vehicle mishap involving a tractor-trailer, which near 4 group injured and tons of debris connected nan road.

The occurrence unit said nan incident occurred connected Interstate 83, a fewer miles northbound of nan Maryland line, astatine astir 9:30 a.m. section clip connected Friday, Aug. 1. They stated that 4 group were transported to adjacent hospitals aft nan incident, though they did not disclose their conditions.

The occurrence crews besides said that nan interstate had to beryllium “shut down” arsenic crews cleared nan debris and vehicles. Several occurrence crews responded to nan incident to thief reroute traffic.

A photograph shared by Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company showed respective unit members wearing information vests and holding what appeared to beryllium rakes arsenic they headed to cleanable up dozens of surgery boxes and basking dogs laid retired connected nan highway. 

On nan other broadside of nan interstate, nan ample tractor-trailer could beryllium seen pinch its near broadside bent outward. In nan photo, nan actual divider betwixt nan roads could beryllium seen looking damaged. 

The tractor-trailer that was progressive successful nan clang reportedly was carrying thousands of basking dogs that spilled onto nan roadway, per NBC News. 

“I tin show you personally, basking dogs are very slippery — I did not cognize that,” Shrewsbury Fire Company Chief Brad Dauberman told nan outlet.

He added of nan cleanup: “Once those time off nan motortruck and deed nan road, that’s each garbage, and it’s still beautiful warm.”

State constabulary told NBC News that nan tractor-trailer had an unspecified mechanical problem, which led it to push into different car and scrape nan interstate actual divider. When it did this, nan motortruck opened up and boxes of basking dogs fell retired and scattered onto nan highway.

Dauberman said a front-end loader had to beryllium utilized to scoop up nan piles of basking dogs connected nan roadworthy and driblet them into a dump motortruck successful bid to clear nan highway. 

The road was yet reopened respective hours later.