Truck carrying 3,500 kilos of eels overturns and covers cars in slime

It’s the stuff of nightmares – a truck overturned on a highway in Oregon, spilling several tonnes of slimy, wriggling eels all over five cars.

Inside was 3,500 kilos of hagfish – also known as slime eels – an eel-like creature which produces slime when distressed.

It’s safe to say that the hagfish were extremely distressed – after a truck failed to slow down for construction works and ploughed into five cars, with containers of hagfish flying over the highway.

No one was injured in the crash – but there was so much slime that emergency services had to employ a bulldozer to clean the highway.

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Turcker Salvatore Tragale was driving on Highway 101 with 13 containers of hagfish – and failed to slow down when part of the highway was blocked for construction work.