A sandbar shark was killed on Thursday when a semi-trailer truck traveling from Orlando, Florida to Coney Island Aquarium in New York blew blew out a tire, hurling the shark on to the highway, WESH Orlando reported.
A SeaWorld rescue team arrived on I-95 to examine the three remaining sharks, which will remain in stable condition at SeaWorld before continuing onward to Coney Island.
"They’re in good condition," Jim Kinsler, a member of the SeaWorld rescue team, told wesh. "Nothing different from normal transport stress."
This shark-related traffic accident comes in the wake of a semi-trailer containing thousands of piglets overturning in Ohio on Tuesday.
The driver, who was transporting 2,200 piglets, crashed into a guardrail, causing the trailer to flip. Thousands of piglets died upon impact; others wandered off the highway into the woods, WHIO reported.
US-35 was closed for eight hours as highway workers worked to clean up carnage and formed search parties to round up loose piglets.
"We found a home for them temporarily,"Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer told WHIO. "There’s plenty of pig farmers in Greene County.
Roughly 1,000 piglets have been found since the accident and brought to Greene County fairgrounds.
The accident comes almost a year after America suffered from a major bacon shortage due to mass casualties of pigs.