HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Hundreds of beer cans were scattered on the shoulder of a highway near Tampa after a tractor-trailer failed to complete a turn on Tuesday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The incident happened around 2:35 a.m. when a driver was traveling south on Interstate 75 near mile marker 238, troopers said.
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The trailer was exiting the highway toward a rest area when the driver failed to negotiate his turn, which sent the vehicle off the roadway and caused it to overturn, according to the FHP. The trailer spilled a large volume of beer on the shoulder, as seen in the pictures below.
The driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital, troopers said.
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