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Truck spills pennies on Delaware freeway

Posted at 10:18 PM, Sep 08, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-09 02:59:07-04

A section of an interstate became a sea of copper Thursday morning.

A tractor-trailer carrying blank pennies to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia crashed into a barrier, overturned and caught fire in New Castle, Delaware.

Thousands of pennies spilled onto Interstate 95, forcing police to close it in both directions.

The truck driver only suffered minor injuries.