Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LAKE WORTH, Texas, July 7 (UPI) -- A truck accident left authorities in north-central Texas battling up to 1 million bees freed from boxes containing honey and hives in the crash. A truck driver had trouble negotiating a curve near the Lake Worth bridge northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, about 11 p.m. Tuesday, Lake Worth Police Chief Brett McGuire told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Advertisement Officials closed Lake Worth Boulevard twice while trying to subdue the bees, with firefighters using foam to force the insects back into the boxes that fell off a flat-bed truck and broke open. A state-certified beekeeper was called in Wednesday and -- along with his children, ages 12 and 15 -- rounded up the boxes and put them back on the truck. The beekeeper, David Lister, told the newspaper there were 25 boxes and each had a hive of about 40,000 bees. "They were just swarming everywhere for about a 300-foot radius," Lister told the newspaper. McGuire told the Star-Telegram: "We had several officers, public works folks and firefighters that got stung just in the course of doing business. We're still trying to clean bees out of cop cars." Advertisement
