--- title: Florida: Truck Carrying 4 Sharks Get Into Highway Accident description: 3 of the sharks survived the accident canonical: https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T15:19:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:01.043Z og:title: Truck Full of Sharks Crashes on Florida Highway og:description: 3 of the sharks survived the accident og:url: https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Truck Full of Sharks Crashes on Florida Highway twitter:description: 3 of the sharks survived the accident twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Truck Full of Sharks Crashes on Florida Highway by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Contributor Jun 11, 2015 3:19 PM UTC by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Contributor Jun 11, 2015 3:19 PM UTC One shark was killed and three more unsettled in an accident on Florida’s I-95 in Volusia County, sheriff’s deputies have reported. The sandbar sharks were being transported to an aquarium in Coney Island, New York, when the tractor trailer lost a tire. The truck careened off the road and stopped at a tree line – the shark that died had been thrown clear of the semi in the collision. SeaWorld was summoned to the crash site to transfer the three surviving sharks, who will be transported to the aquarium’s Orlando facility until further arrangements can be made. “We’re just grateful no one got injured and we’re happy to help,” SeaWorld assistant curator Jim Kinsler said, insensitively, according to My News 13\. He said the five-foot-long sharks are in good condition currently, aside from stress from transportation. The Florida Museum of Natural History claims that sandbar sharks are the most abundant species of large shark on this side of the Atlantic. _This_ [_article_](http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20929863,00.html) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/"},"headline":"Truck Full of Sharks Crashes on Florida Highway","datePublished":"2015-06-11T15:19:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:01.043Z","description":"Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the road","url":"https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Accident","SeaWorld","shark"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917749/florida-shark-accident/","name":"Truck Full of Sharks Crashes on Florida Highway"}}]}] ```