$800,000 in Dimes Spilled on Texas Highway After Truck Crash

Now this is a change you definitely didn’t see coming.

Drivers on U.S. Highway 287 near Alvord, Texas got quite the surprise Tuesday morning when an 18-wheeler carrying 8 million freshly minted dimes flipped over, spilling $800,000 in shiny coins all over the road and into a ditch!

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the crash happened just after 5:30 a.m. when the driver veered off the road near Alvord High School, overcorrected, and overturned. Both the driver and a passenger were taken to Medical City Decatur, but thankfully, their injuries were not life-threatening.

How do you clean up 8 million dimes?

That left first responders and cleanup crews with a very different emergency: how do you clean up 8 million dimes?

The answer? Vacuum trucks and street sweepers.

Texas Sky Ranger captured footage from above, showing workers literally vacuuming coins out of the grass and mud along the highway. Crews continue to spend the day collecting the never-ending trail of currency, which has shut down the southbound lanes of Highway 287 for hours.

An expensive mess takes time to clean.

While no one’s saying how long the cleanup took or whether they recovered every single dime, it’s safe to say this is one of the more expensive messes we’ve seen on a Texas road in a while.

No word yet on exactly how many dimes were recovered or how long cleanup will take, but next time someone says they’re short on change… this is probably not what they meant.