Nova Scotia truck crashes on Maine highway with 13,000 kg of lobster

Two drivers, a dog and 30,000 pounds of live Canadian lobsters are mostly unscathed after whiteout conditions resulted in a crash on a highway in Maine.

"We saw nothing. It was whiteout conditions," said Horst Puff of Nova Scotia who was driving along I-95 in Benton, Maine, overnight Tuesday.

"I'm a professional truck driver ... for years. I'm driving, roughly, more than [160,000 kilometres] a year." 

The cargo was destined for Rhode Island and New York. 

"Another car spun out in front of it. He tried to avoid it, lost control of the tractor trailer, went over to the side and rolled over on its side," said State Trooper Joseph Chretien.

Puff says where the truck ended up actually saved his cargo.

"In the ditch we had more or less no wind chill, so the boxes are pretty well insulated ... that means the lobsters are all pretty good."