Louis Holst and his wife Tammie were driving a tractor-trailer that carried 460 bee hives when they reached a sharp turn in a construction zone on I-15 in southern Utah. The turn caused the truck’s trailer to flip, releasing approximately 25 million bees out into the open.
Holst and his wife survived the truck accident, but escaping the bees proved to be the real challenge. Holst took off his shirt and swatted at the air to keep the bees away while his wife made a run for it. Unfortunately, both Holst and his wife were stung around 12 times each, and at least two initial responders were also stung.
The truck’s shipment of bees was the last of 160 truckloads that were carrying a total of 4 million bees to a farm in Bakersfield, California. After the accident, Interstate 15 near St. George was closed for many hours while professional beekeepers tried to wrangle the bees back into their hives. Unfortunately, the majority of the bees died or quickly disappeared after the accident.
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