The accident scene you really don’t want to be sent to
August 4, 2006
After 16-year-old Jacqueline Cossairt of Markle lost control of a sport utility vehicle on gravel-covered Wells County Road 1050 North about 4:30 p.m., it struck an old hollow tree, rousting 80,000 to 100,000 honeybees inside.
By the time Ossian Volunteer Fire Chief Kent Gilbert arrived he found a black cloud of the insects swarming around the GMC Envoy.
“Those bees were mad,” he said. “I’ve never seen bees, especially honeybees, attack like that.”
And those angry bees turned what Gilbert said should have been a 10-minute extrication of the teen who was pinned inside her truck into 45 agonizing minutes as firefighters tried to figure out a way to safely work among the bees.
Cripes, what a nightmare.
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August 4th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Weird that they didn’t think of using smudge pots. Smoke is frequently used by beekeepers to calm bees down.