The Union Pacific Railroad train struck the semi around 3:05 p.m. on Willow Road at Track Road, just east of Franklin Grove, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said.
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The same thing happened to a truck hauling chocolate syrup from the Hershey's plant in Oakdale about 35 years ago and not having anything better to do that morning, me and a buddy jumped in the truck to go take a look. Yeah, we were that bored.
As we approached the crossing, the flies were so thick that the scene of the accident looked like it was behind a shifting black screen.
A train had destroyed a trailer hauling chocolate syrup.
In the summer in California.
Right in between 2 huge dairies.
Yeah. Flies for days.
For two weeks afterward, any time you drove over that crossing you had to roll your windows up to keep the cab from filling up with flies.
