Truck Spills 165,000 Eggs on Virginia Highway

Drivers on their way to breakfast in northern Virginia over the weekend found it all over the road after nearly 165,000 eggs spilled out of an overturned tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway.

"It looked like a large omelet", said Michael Karbonski of the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Apparently, the tractor-trailer crashed into a guard rail just after midnight Saturday, spilling its contents and forcing officials to close an exit ramp before finally re-opening after 11 a.m.

It appears the truck driver simply fled the scene before police arrived and has not been located. Police said the driver would likely face charges for fleeing and possibly other offenses.

"For him to just up and leave like that, that's kinda odd", Licklider said. The company that owned the truck hadn't heard from the driver either.

"Don't know where he's at", the owner of the company, H.L. Wilson, said. "Don't know what the deal is".

The eggs made their way to a drainage ditch, where they created "a river of yellow yolk" according to local reports. The cleaning crew used 250 pounds of kitty litter to absorb the highway omelet then swept it up and took it away in three trash bins, Morris said.

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