Semi-truck crashes and the clean-up efforts that follow are rarely mundane.
We’ve seen wrecked trucks spill supercars, beer, and fireworks over the past couple of years, to name a few examples.
But crews in Texas were recently dispatched to clean up an even more unusual spill: millions of newly minted dimes.
The incident happened on Highway 287 in Alvord, a town located about an hour northwest of Dallas.
Local news outlet WFAA explains that the driver veered off the road at about 5:30 a.m. on April 30, overcorrected, and rolled.
The trailer flipped with the truck and spilled roughly $800,000 in dimes onto the road.
Some workers even ended up painstakingly picking up the dimes one at a time by hand and dumping them into one of the vacuum cleaners. »