In the early morning hours of Sept. 14, a tractor trailer carrying chickens struck an overpass on I-85 in the vicinity of Hillsborough, then overturned and burst into flames. By the time the hearth was extinguished by the Orange Rural Fire Section, the trailer was terribly weakened, the truck’s taxi was totally absent, and hardly more than the transmission was remaining from the engine. The driver, 51-yr-previous Daniel Eugene McNeal of Exmore, Va., was killed in the crash, together with his pet. The impact of the truck and the fire that followed was so harmful to the bridge’s structural integrity, the N.C. Dept. of Transportation has held the overpass shut.…