Frito-Lay chips and Busch beer collided on a Florida highway Wednesday morning.
Near mile marker 187 on I-95 South in Melbourne, Florida just after 3:30 a.m., a tractor-trailer carrying a full load of Busch beer hit another truck loaded with Frito-Lay potato chips, WKMG reported. That collision caused at least one truck to flip over. Beer and chips littered the highway, shutting down traffic for hours as officials worked to clean up the mess.
"We had a front-end loader come out and scoop all of the beer and chips and pushed them to the right shoulder," Kim Montes, spokeswoman for the Florida Highway Patrol, told KUSA. "We have two of the three lanes open now."
The crash occurred when the driver of the Busch beer truck attempted to switch lanes but ended up swerving to avoid another car. That swerve caused him to hit the Frito-Lay truck, which had earlier pulled over on the road shoulder because it had been experiencing mechanical problems. The driver of the Busch beer truck was ticketed for the crash, but the Frito-Lay driver was not.
Nobody was hurt in the crash but that doesn't mean there weren't any victims.
"All of the products will be thrown away," Montes said. "They can't take the risk of them having some type of internal damage. They're still trying to get the chips and beer out of there."