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OAK BROOK, Unwell. — One among Oscar Mayer’s scorching dog-shaped Wienermobiles ended up flipped onto its aspect after crashing on a suburban Chicago freeway, police mentioned.
The Wienermobile — technically not the full-size model however the Mini-based Lil Hyperlink — hit a automobile Monday morning alongside Interstate 294, and its driver misplaced management and overcorrected, inflicting it to roll onto its aspect close to the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois State Police mentioned.
No accidents have been reported after the crash, which prompted the closure of the appropriate lane of northbound I-294 for greater than an hour, officers mentioned.
A spokesperson for the Oscar Mayer model, which has a number of Wienermobiles, informed the Chicago Solar-Instances it is “grateful that everyone concerned is protected and there have been no accidents.”
Video from the crash scene reveals that the yellow and orange Wienermobile was later hauled away on a flatbed truck with obvious injury seen on a part of the car’s scorching canine form.
Bonus footage of occupants exiting the mini Wienermobile to your viewing pleasure. pic.twitter.com/AOJJC01g1p
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