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A truck dumped 4,160 gallons of milk on I-95 in South Florida. See what it looked like

Milk litters the highway on Jan. 29 on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County.
Milk litters the highway on Jan. 29 on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue

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.

The crash on Jan. 29 peeled open a milk truck and sent thousands of gallons onto the roadway.
The crash on Jan. 29 peeled open a milk truck and sent thousands of gallons onto the roadway. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue

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:

Crews clean up empty drums after a truck spilled a load of canola cooking oil in 2004 on Commercial Boulevard just east of Dixie Highway in Broward County.
Crews clean up empty drums after a truck spilled a load of canola cooking oil in 2004 on Commercial Boulevard just east of Dixie Highway in Broward County.

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.

People look for the money after a Brinks truck cr ashed in Miami in 1997.
People look for the money after a Brinks truck cr ashed in Miami in 1997. Miami Herald File

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.

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