Ever wonder what Mercury in retrograde might conjure up on a stretch of highway? Well, buckle up, because this isn’t your everyday traffic mishap—it’s a full-blown chaos parade featuring a semi-truck driver who thought, “Hey, why not make an illegal U-turn right here at ‘Official Use Only’?” Spoiler alert: the Florida Turnpike didn’t agree. Caught on dashcam and bystanders’ eyes, the truck sliced across lanes like a bull in a china shop, leaving a minivan with zero escape routes to crash into the trailer. The tragic fallout? A 30-year-old driver and his two passengers didn’t make it, while the trucker and his buddy walked away with nary a scratch. It’s a grim reminder that sometimes, the universe’s cosmic wink can come with a side of disaster when you least expect it… LEARN MORE.
Dashcam and witness footage shows the moment a semi-truck driver on the Florida Turnpike decides to make an illegal U-turn at an ‘Official Use Only’ spot, cutting across multiple lanes of traffic. A minivan in the left lane had nowhere to go and slammed directly into the trailer.
The 30-year-old driver and his two passengers, a 37-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man, were all killed. The truck driver and his passenger were uninjured.
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