Banana truck driven by Davenport man hits bison in Iowa
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BRANDON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are buffaloed by the crash of a banana truck in eastern Iowa.
The truck hit a buffalo on Interstate 380 near Brandon about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The northbound truck rolled and slid into the southbound lane, where it was hit by a car. Crates of bananas ended up on the road.
There actually were two buffaloes on the highway, Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said Thursday. The truck, driven by Stephen Beauclair of Davenport, was passing a car, he said. The car swideswiped one bison that was on the shoulder of the road while the truck hit the other one that was on the highway.
``Two buffaloes had gotten loose from somewhere. I don't know where they belong. It doesn't look like (deputies) found the owners,'' he said.
The drivers of the car and truck weren't hurt, the sheriff said.
Forsyth said the initial call was about two bulls on the highways. Officials didn't know they were buffaloes until a deputy arrived at the scene, he said.
The one hit by the truck was killed and was in the median. The buffalo hit by the car apparently survived and ran off.
Forsyth didn't know how many bananas the truck was hauling except ``it was a ton'' of them. He also said he didn't know who owned the truck, where it was coming from and where it was going.
KCGR-TV of Cedar Rapids said the truck was headed to Fargo, N.D., from Mississippi.
``At first I thought it was a steer, a longhorn steer or something because I seen the horns but that's all I seen,'' Beauclair told KCRG.
Forsyth said the Iowa Department of Transportation was called to clean up the bananas.
A message left Thursday for Benton County Deputy John Lindaman, who investigated the accidents, was not immediately returned.
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