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From The Associated Press

Armored vehicle spills $350 in pennies on I-95

Upper Chichester Township - An armored vehicle spilled approximately $350 worth of pennies on Interstate 95 during morning rush hour Monday, causing a traffic backup while workers cleaned up coins glittering across two lanes, police said.
Most of the pennies were recovered.

Police were called to the scene at about 7:20 a.m after the side door of a Brooks Armored truck swung open, spilling several coin bags onto the highway, state police Trooper Timothy Rymer said.

The driver apparently not noticing the spill, continued north for about half a mile in this Delaware County community near Philadelphia, Rymer said.

Several cars traveling in the same direction drove over the rolled coins, crushing their wrappers and strewing pennies across two of the highway's three lanes under the state Route 452 overpass, he said.

"There was pennies everywhere. You could see the glittering on the highway," Rymer said.

The spill stretched for about 500 feet, he said.

A second Brooks truck, apparently traveling with the first, saw the spill and pulled over, Rymer said. A Brooks supervisor was dispatched to the scene, said Officer Mike Simmons of the Upper Chichester Township police.

Police were able to clear one lane within minutes, Rymer said. But the other lane was closed for about an hour while police, highway personnel and Brooks workers used brooms, shovels and a squeegee to clean up the copper mess, he said.

The closed lanes caused traffic to back up in the northbound lanes of I-95 for several hours, Rymer said.