A truck dumped 4,160 gallons of milk on I-95 in South Florida. See what it looked like
A Borden truck that crashed on Interstate 95 spilled a load of milk on the highway.
No one was hurt in the Jan. 29 crash, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. But a stretch of highway was shut down for nearly three hours for cleanup.
The crash peeled open the truck and propelled 4.160 gallons of milk in the northbound lanes near Lake Worth Road.
With more delivery trucks traveling at all hours, crashes have sent a variety of consumer goods onto roads.
Across Florida over the years, we have seen crashed trucks dump lobster traps, meat, chips, beer. A truck on fire dumped frozen fish on the road in Miami Gardens.
It’s enough to have a food 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).
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.