LE MARS, Iowa (KWQC) – Tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of frozen treats were sent airborne after a train slammed into an ice cream truck on Wednesday…
Le Mars Fire Chief David Schipper told the Sioux City Journal shortly after the accident some youngsters were unable to resist temptation.
“We actually saw some kids pick some [frozen treats] up on the other side and run off with them,” Schipper said…
The accident took place before 11 a.m. Wednesday at a crossing near the intersection of Business Highway 75 and 18th Street, not far from Wells Enterprises’ South ice cream plant…The trailer was decorated with a photo of Wells’ signature treat, the Bomb Pop.
NY Daily News, April 1, 2014
The maker of Popsicle treats blasted a rival dessert dealer with a lawsuit Monday for allegedly packaging its frozen confections called Bomb Pops to look like the Firecrackers brand.
Twenty five years ago got called to a train vs. Hersheys Syrup truck incident at Pittsburg, CA … After that stuff soiled during cleanup, I was never that fond of chocolate syrup ever again.
Not railroad, but along the same lines - a truck carrying fresh fruit rolled over in the median of the Interstate near here. DOT figured they’d just let it rot in place - it wasn’t close to anything that would be offended by any smell (other than passing drivers).
That plan got rethunk when the car vs animal collisions jumped exponentially as local wildlife crossed the highway for a delicious snack…
On a I-95 trip to Jacksonville several years ago - got delayed for 3+ hours just South of the Florida-Georgia Line - Produce truck involved in the accident - produce blocking all 3 SB lanes. Local officials got a group of skid loaders and pushed all the produce into the creek next to bridge the accident happened on. Three days later a down stream communitiy began to complain about all the rotting produce it the stream as it worked its’ way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Many years ago a truck carrying squeezeable toilet paper played chicken at a grade crossing. The truck lost. The driver escaped unscathed, but not his lading.
A block away was a small college campus. The college scrimpted when buying toilet paper. The students claimed the college bought recyled sand paper.
The campus emptied out to the wreck scene. The students grabbed all they could carry and headed back to the dorms.
Many years ago a car was loaded with candy at the Hershey plant on the Reading in Hershey, PA. It was sent west and interchanged to the Western Mayland. The car derailed a ways west of Hagerstown, and candy was strewn all over the landscape, allowing the locals to harvest the spoils. For years, the incident was known as the Candy Bar Wreck.
Back in the about 1960 the Capitol Limited hit a truckload of Joy Dishwashing Liquid. The dmaged engine was towed to Garrett and set outside the roundhouse pending repairs that would allow it to be moved to a major backshop for complete repairs.
Then a Sunday afternoon thunderstorm hit - suds all over the place!
One evening quite a few years ago, on the interstate, I saw flashing lights ahead, then saw what seemed to be chunks of red flesh on the pavement. I shuddered to think what this meant, but then saw a pick-up truck by the trees off to the right with a partial load of watermelons and more watermelons scattered on the ground.
If it gets transported on a highway - at some point in time, somewhere, some railroad has hit it at a road crossing! And if not at a genuine at grade road crossing, it had a incident on a overpass and came down on the railroad and way struck.
It would be interesting if nobody was hurt after a train hits a truck full of KY Jelly. It does dry up shortly after it’s out of the container but is still sticky.
A friend of mine who worked for Conrail went to a derailment where a carload of molasses and a carload of carbon black both ruptured. He said everybody just threw out all their clothes and boots they wore to that derailment.
Another frivilous lawsuit! I see this is from 2014, but, I hope Wells wins/won. I’ve known about “Bomb Pop” for eons. I’ve never seen the"Firecraker" brand.
