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08-08-2006, 01:57 PM
Driver hurt, thousands of turkeys die in truck crash
By The Associated Press
August 7, 2006
AQUILLA, Texas- A truck driver was injured and thousands of turkeys were killed Monday when a vehicle hauling the birds overturned on a farm-to-market road.
The truck, carrying a load of 6-week-old birds from a brood farm to a turkey-growing farm for Cargill Foods, overturned when the driver attempted to make a turn, slipping across the intersection of FM 933 and FM 1304 in Hill County, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Rich Medina said.
The driver, 33-year-old Timothy Carnes, suffered cuts and bruises and was airlifted to a hospital as a precaution.
Many of the dazed turkeys scattered into the woods, and some were later captured by Cargill Foods workers, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported in a story for its Tuesday editions.
Cargill's agriculture manager, Ira Brister, said it was too early to tell what the financial cost of the loss would be for Cargill. Healthy surviving birds were hauled to the farm, company officials said, and injured birds were euthanized.
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By The Associated Press
August 7, 2006
AQUILLA, Texas- A truck driver was injured and thousands of turkeys were killed Monday when a vehicle hauling the birds overturned on a farm-to-market road.
The truck, carrying a load of 6-week-old birds from a brood farm to a turkey-growing farm for Cargill Foods, overturned when the driver attempted to make a turn, slipping across the intersection of FM 933 and FM 1304 in Hill County, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Rich Medina said.
The driver, 33-year-old Timothy Carnes, suffered cuts and bruises and was airlifted to a hospital as a precaution.
Many of the dazed turkeys scattered into the woods, and some were later captured by Cargill Foods workers, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported in a story for its Tuesday editions.
Cargill's agriculture manager, Ira Brister, said it was too early to tell what the financial cost of the loss would be for Cargill. Healthy surviving birds were hauled to the farm, company officials said, and injured birds were euthanized.
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