Truck carrying hundreds of live chickens crashes on Toowoomba Range
Firefighters are battling to free hundreds of injured chickens trapped in the wreckage of a truck crash at the top of the Toowoomba Range.
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A SEMI trailer carrying hundreds of live chickens has crashed at the top of the Toowoomba Range.
One lane of the Toowoomba Connection Road is blocked by the wreckage of the truck, which crashed in the eastbound lane just before 10.40am.
“One lane is open and one lane is blocked,” the spokesman said.
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“The truck was carrying chickens.”
The spokesman said a number of the chickens had escaped from the truck after the crash.
“They’re all over the place,” he said.
Two Queensland Fire and Emergency Services crews are on the scene as well as the Queensland Ambulance Service.
“The truck was on its side at the top of the range,” a QFES spokeswoman said.
“There were no entrapments.”
Fire crews are showering chickens that survived the crash with water to cool them down and destress them.
Crews are also working to disassemble parts of the truck to get to trapped chickens that are still alive.
Many chickens are believed to have been killed in the crash.
The truck driver sustained minor injuries in the crash.
The incident happened just a few hundred metres from where a cattle truck overturned last year.
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