A motorist who stopped to help a turtle cross a Florida highway inadvertently caused a multi-vehicle pileup on Tuesday, authorities said.
A dashboard camera video from a semi-truck shared by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office shows the pileup on U.S. Route 331 Tuesday morning.
A motorist’s decision to stop and help the turtle “caused a chain reaction affecting multiple vehicles including a large semi, which SURPRISE, doesn’t exactly stop on a dime,” the sheriff’s office said.
There were no serious injuries in the accident, authorities said.
“We don’t advise causing a road obstruction because of a reptilian obstruction,” the sheriff’s office said. “When you come across this predicament in the future and find yourself asking, ‘to swerve or not to swerve’ or ‘to stop and protect’ we hope the answer will now be an obvious one.”
The sheriff’s office added that the turtle survived the ordeal, “and is now living happily ever after in a pond where he will (hopefully) spend the rest of his days avoiding pavement of any kind.”
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