Highway clean up workers busy bees

When talking about car insurance hazards, it is likely that bees aren’t the first thing that spring to mind.

But a recent incident in Utah may make you change your mind. According to news sources a flatbed truck was making its way down a highway when it overturned, causing around 450 45,000-strong bee colonies to be released – that’s around 20 million bees for all you non-mathematicians.

"We stacked the equipment back together, put them back on trucks and trailers and whatever we could find to move them out of there," said a local beekeeper.

He added, "Then we tried to move them as far out of the metropolitan area as we could. Because when those bees come alive today they are going to be mad that their house is all (broken) apart."

Fortunately, despite some non-life-threatening bee stings, no one was injured. But it is easy to see how it could have been worse. Just imagine driving into a cloud of bees at 70 mph with the windows open – half a colony of bees sucked into the cabin could be fatal and hardly bears thinking about.

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