MIMS (USA), Sept 17: A truck carrying $187,000 worth of five-cent coins crashed on Tuesday, killing one person and scattering the nickels across a highway in Florida.

“It’s shiny across the roadway,” said a police official. “There are nickels in the grass, across the interstate.” The coins were on their way to the US Treasury in Miami, where they were set to be distributed to Florida banks.

A truck rear-ended another, forcing the first truck to run off the road and the second to overturn, spilling some of the coins across the road.

A passenger in the truck carrying nickels was killed, and the drivers of both rigs were taken to area hospitals in stable condition.

The secret service and US Treasury were on the scene trying to decide how to pick them up “and to make sure nobody touches any of the nickels”, the official said.—AP