Archive for the ‘Beverage’ Category
Bud Light
August 14th, 2022
On August 10, 2022 a semi truck overturned on I-71 in Kentucky, spilling thousands of Bud Light cans along the shoulder and median. There were no injuries.
Via WLKY, twitter, and others
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Wine
November 10th, 2021
On November 8, 2021 a truck carrying wine spilled it’s load on a busy stretch of US-421 in Winston-Salem NC. After the crash was reported on the Winston-Salem PD twitter account many followers volunteered to help with the clean up effort.
Via Winston-Salem PD Twitter
Light Beer
July 16th, 2017
A tractor-trailer loaded with Keystone Light beer overturned near Denver, CO on the morning of May 15, 2008, spilling cases of beer on I-70 and closing the ramp for several hours.
Crews reopened the ramp at about 3 p.m., according the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Wheat Ridge police spokeswoman Lisa Stigall said the truck driver transporting 12-pack cases of Keystone Light in cans lost control on the wet highway.
The truck hit a curve too fast and tipped over, tearing the side and top of the trailer and spewing beer cans down the embankment. The driver was not seriously injured. Some of the beer survived, too. It was transferred to another truck by hand.
The “uninjured” beer, as Stigall called it, was being transferred by hand to another truck.
The far right lane of I-70 was closed this afternoon because the nose of the beer truck protruded onto the shoulder, she said. Still, traffic on eastbound I-70 was “flowing nicely.”
She said the highway could still close when a wrecker is brought in to flip the beer truck back over.
On A tractor-trailer loaded with beer overturned on a ramp to Interstate 70 this morning, spilling cases of brew on the roadway and closing the ramp for hours.
The Navaho Express rig overturned about 10:30 a.m. on the ramp from Colorado Highway 58 to the eastbound lanes of the interstate in Wheat Ridge.
Keystone Light’s slogan is “Always smooth, even when you’re not.” On Tuesday, a semi tractor-trailer hauling a load of Keystone was anything but smooth as it rolled over, spilling beer and fuel all over the roadway.
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In the last photo, young men can be seen “salvaging” cans of beer. I couldn’t determine if they were with the crew that was tranferring the beer to another truck, or local guys transferring the beer to their fridge.
Denver Post, and other sources
Milk
July 16th, 2017
This Russian Truck crashed in Lithuania, spilling its load of milk on the road.
“Pienas” is Lithuanian for “Milk”.
Red Wine
July 16th, 2017
On July 18, 2007, a truck loaded with 6,500 gallons of red wine rolled several times in California. The driver had minor injuries.
The rig rolled several times, tearing off the valve at the top of the wine tank, allowing red wine to gush from the tank. Crews were able to save about half the wine.
Sunny D
July 16th, 2017
This wasn’t a truck spill, but I thought it was interesting enough to include.
About 8,000 liters of the concentrate used to make the soft drink Sunny D, formerly known as Sunny Delight spilled into a creek in England in May, 2006. The spill killed dozens of fish, which is a little scary. The spill was caused by a crack in an underground fiberglass tank at the Gerber Foods Soft Drink factory in Bridgwater, Somerset. The tank was used to hold sub-standard juice waiting for disposal.
Daily Mail
Vodka
July 16th, 2017
On November 5, 2008 a truck overturned in New Orleans on I-10 spilling its load of Taaka vodka on the road. The off-ramp was shut down due to the accident and was closed for several hours.
Taaka vodka is made by Sazerac, in New Orleans.
