Police vehicles covered in bees after truck overturned

Two police patrol vehicles were swarmed after a big-rig carrying many thousands of bees overturned on an Oklahoma interstate on Tuesday afternoon.



A sheriff's deputy was trapped inside his car as thousands of angry, swarming bees blanketed the cruiser. Miraculously, the state Highway Patrol said, the deputy was stung only once and escaped otherwise unhurt.





But not before he recorded video of the blanket of bees engulfing the vehicle. Garvin County Deputy Carl Zink was responding to a report of an overturned truck shortly after 1pm on Interstate 35 near Pauls Valley, about 50 miles south of Oklahoma City, when the bees swarmed his cruiser.




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Unable to leave the vehicle, Zink took out his phone and began recording what was happening. It took several hours for beekeepers to clear the scene. Traffic was backed up for 4 miles, said Bud Ramming, the county's emergency management director.