DALTON, Ga. — The chicken took a lickin’.
Travelers headed south on Interstate 75 Friday were backed up for several miles most of the day after a tractor-trailer hit another truck, one loaded with frozen chicken, that was parked on the side of the road.
No one was seriously injured in the incident, and no citations had been issued as of Friday afternoon, according to Cpl. Kris Hemphill, with the Georgia State Patrol.
After his truck broke down, James Robert Bennett, of Savannah, Ga., parked his truck containing Tyson frozen chicken on the shoulder of I-75 near mile marker 324, Hemphill said. Bennett walked to the Flying J truck stop at the next exit, Hemphill said.
It is not clear why the driver in the second tractor-trailer veered off the road shortly before 7 a.m., hit the parked truck, then jack-knifed, Hemphill said.