Highway 1 closed due to chicken truck incident in Langley, B.C.

Darren Ell, the general manager of Mainroad Lower Mainland contracting, said the truck was in a collision with another vehicle and that the closure of the route was necessary in order to bring in heavy equipment to recover the truck as well as the livestock. Some of the chickens did not survive, he noted.

"I am not certain on how many chickens perished, but there were some fatalities," he wrote in an email to CTV News.