Chickens run for it: Thousands of birds escape in Truck crash

The less-celebrated riddle of why the chickens blocked the road is solved, as firefighters scramble to round up the birds.

Around 7,000 chickens found their own free range after the truck transporting them crashed and they broke out onto a major road in Austria.

“Boxes containing dead and injured animals were strewn over a 160-metre stretch while thousands of chickens ran onto the motorway on both sides,” police said.

It is reported the driver admitted having a “second-long sleep”, causing him to veer right and hit a bridge pillar on the Vienna-bound side of the A1 autobahn near Linz in the north of the country.

Source: Chickens run for it: Thousands of birds escape in Austrian truck crash