DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — A truck driver, passersby and several emergency responders were stung by bees after a tractor-trailer hauling beehives crashed and rolled this week in Death Valley National Park.
The crash happened just before 10 a.m. Sunday on California Highway 190, when the truck driver lost control on a steep grade west of Towne Pass. The truck overturned several times, smashing and scattering the beehives.
Passersby who got the driver out of the truck were stung, as were California Highway Patrol officers and National Park Service employees. The driver, a 35-year-old man from Las Vegas, had traumatic injuries from the rollover and bee stings and was taken to a hospital.
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