SULLIVAN, Ind. (AP) – Workers spent hours unloading hundreds of pumpkins from a semitrailer that slid down an embankment along a southwestern Indiana highway.
Charles Hancock of Hancock Trucking says a crew of 15 people worked four hours Tuesday on moving the pumpkins from the wrecked trailer along U.S. 41 in southern Sullivan County.
Sheriff's Sgt. William Snead tells the Tribune-Star the truck crashed Monday night during a storm with heavy rain and strong winds. The driver was hospitalized with cuts to his head.
Many of the 1,800 pumpkins spilled from the tarp-covered trailer into a farm field. Snead says the towing company wanted the rest removed before moving the truck.
Hancock says he expected being able to salvage about 80 percent of the pumpkins that were bound for St. Louis.
