Florida teens held after crash leaves two alligators hanging from truck window

Authorities say reptiles found in SUV lying on its side' but no indication of what caused the accident

Officers arriving at the scene of a Florida road accident involving an overturned truck were surprised to find that two of the victims" were large alligators, captured by the teenage driver and a friend on a morning fishing expedition and thrown into the back of their vehicle.

Details of the extraordinary incident appeared in a weekend Facebook posting by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC). The post chronicled how officers found the two alligators, measuring 8ft and more than 6ft, hanging from the rear window of an SUV lying on its side" in Hardee county, about 70 miles south-east of Tampa.