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Tractor Trailer Full Of Turkeys Overturns Near Wingham

Huron County OPP have charged a 52-year-old man after a tractor trailer loaded with turkeys overturned.

Police were called to McLean Line east of Wingham on June 29 just before midnight, after the driver of the tractor trailer lost control, drove off the gravel road, and rolled the truck onto its passenger side in the ditch.

A tractor trailer had just been loaded at a nearby farm with 1,700 turkeys and had made it about 100 metres before the crash.

No one was hurt in the crash but police have not released any information about if the turkeys survived.

A 52-year-old Elmira motorist has been charged with careless driving.

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