Sugar Crash: Truck Hauling 35K Pounds of M&Ms Overturns in Tennessee

December 16, 2019

A truck hauling about 35,000 pounds (15,876 kilograms) of M&M candies overturned on a Tennessee highway Friday morning, a Department of Transportation official confirmed.

The semitrailer crashed on Interstate 40 near Knoxville around 5:30 a.m., news outlets reported. One of the ramps in the area was expected to be closed for several hours as emergency crews responded and others cleaned up, Mark Nagi, community relations officer for the agency, said on Twitter. Nagi followed up with a photo of dozens of cardboard boxes filled with packaged M&Ms sitting among the debris.

The agency didn’t say if anyone was injured in the crash.

Topics Auto

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  • December 20, 2019 at 3:07 pm
    ??? says:
    Insurance question of the day: If the M&M's escape the boxes and spill out individually all over the road, is this a pollutant, that would require either a pollution polic... read more
  • December 17, 2019 at 9:15 am
    Fair Playing Field says:
    Sounds like a sticky situation.
  • December 16, 2019 at 2:01 pm
    Mark A Miller says:
    Please learn to use significant figures when listing metric equivalents. To show 35,000 pounds (two significant figures) as 15,876 kilograms (five significant figures) is ridi... read more

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