Is that beer, meat and money on the highway? Trucks have spilled loads on Florida roads
A truck crash is serious business. Injuries. Lane shutdowns. Fuel on the road. First responders at risk.
But truck crashes can also be a little weird, too. Especially when big rigs lose their loads.
Across Florida over the years, we have seen crashed trucks dump lobster traps, meat, chips, beer. It’s enough to have a party.
Then there are the shoes, the manure, even thousands of dollars in cash (which alert bystanders scooped up and ran off with handfuls, by the way).
On May 10, a truck on fire dumped frozen fish on the road in Miami Gardens.
Here’s a look at some of the cargo that has been dumped on Florida roads:
Beer and chips
It wasn’t a party for highway drivers. A truck carrying chips and another truck carrying beer collided in Brevard County, dumping both on Interstate 95.
Lobster traps
Broken lobster traps littered the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys when a truck went out of control.
Money from a Brinks truck
A Brinks truck overturned and dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars onto I-95 in Miami. Humor columnist and author Dave Barry wrote about it back then.
Busch beer
A full load of Busch beer, 60,000 pounds, got dumped on the interstate in the Florida Panhandle after a truck overturned.
Nickels
More than $180,000 in shiny new nickels rolled onto a Brevard County highway after two trucks collided.
Cow poop
The crash of a dump truck sent a load of cow manure onto I-95 in Brevard County.
Tubes
The driver of a semi-truck lost control, sending large cylindrical tubes onto I-75 in Charlotte County.
Crushed asphalt
As if there weren’t enough asphalt on the roadway, an overturned dump truck spilled its cargo of crushed asphalt onto I-75 in Manatee County.
Meat
Boxes of frozen chicken and beef hit the road after a train hit a disabled truck in Lakeland.
Paint thinner
An overturned truck spilled 570 gallons of paint thinner on U.S. 1 in North Florida.
Shoes
Thousands of shoes landed on the Palmetto Expressway and police were looking for a way to give them away.
This story was originally published May 12, 2022 at 2:24 PM.
