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Sugar Crash: After Tanker Flips, Chocolate Bars Traffic On Polish Highway

A truck carrying tons of liquid chocolate flipped over on a highway Wednesday, leaving sweet stuff to congeal on the asphalt. Happily, there's video — though it's a bit grosser than you might imagine.

The sight of traffic stacking up on a weekday had to be a familiar one for the commuters and road-trippers plying Poland's major A2 highway on Wednesday. But as the minutes whipped by while the cars

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