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Chicken truck overturns in Lula
Driver of vehicle uninjured, some chickens did not survive
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Several chickens escape from the tractor-trailer that overturned at Old Cornelia Highway and Ga. 52 intersection Wednesday. It took workers more than an hour to get the truck turned back upright. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Some chickens fluttered to freedom Wednesday evening after a tractor-trailer overturned in Lula. A truck for Pilgrim’s Pride flipped on its right side around 6 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Ga. 51/Old Cornelia Highway at Ga. 52/Lula Road. “(The driver)’s making a right-hand turn off of (Ga.) 51 ... and basically cuts it too short,” Georgia State Patrol Trooper Brodie Forrester said. The back tires got into a ditch during the turn, and the truck overturned, Forrester said.