--- description: After a dairy truck lost its cargo on a Gloucester road, the Internet teemed with plenty of jokes and puns about spilled milk. title: Dairy Truck Crash Reminds You Not to Cry Over Spilled Milk image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0344de168cec0092/69892b1c096a9477d46a1d91/spilled-milk-bottles-highway-accident.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dairy Truck Accident Serves As a Reminder to Us All About Spilled Milk  by [Cady Lang](/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2018 7:24 PM CUT  Crying over Split Milk Crying over Split MilkSchulteProductions—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 16, 2018 7:24 PM CUT After a dairy truck [lost its cargo](http://time.com/5202598/russia-plane-gold-cargo-takeoff/ "undefined") in London on Thursday night, spilling a load of crates filled with milk bottles, the Internet found endless humor in the old adage, “there’s no use crying over [spilled milk](http://time.com/3809138/paper-ping-pong-and-spilled-milk-robin-maddocks-absurdist-california-portraits/ "undefined").” Instead of lamenting over the spilled milk on Gloucester Road, social media users instead took to the Internet to crack jokes and make [good use of puns](http://time.com/4025635/girlfriend-puns-nature-hike/ "undefined"), with some even going so far as to suggest that the solution to the dairy truck’s accident would be to have a cereal truck make a stop at scene. This policeman used his traffic warning tweet about the possible delays because of the accident to invoke the fitting idiom. > [](https://twitter.com/CopThatCooks/status/974400489684168705) While another Twitter user cracked a joke at the original pun. > [](https://twitter.com/ScottMcGready/status/974421986544967681) This user thought the solution to the spilled milk would be cereal to match it. > [](https://twitter.com/stoleyaunicorn/status/974400798305280000) Still another another found an appropriate onomatopoeia for the occasion. > [](https://twitter.com/PhilipJMorris/status/974421765417000962) One thing’s for certain — while there’s no use crying over spilled milk, there’s certainly merit to laughing about it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5203480/dairy-truck-accident-no-use-crying-over-spilled-milk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5203480/dairy-truck-accident-no-use-crying-over-spilled-milk/"},"headline":"Dairy Truck Accident Serves As a Reminder to Us All About Spilled Milk","datePublished":"2018-03-16T19:24:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:27.317Z","description":"The Internet had endless jokes and puns about the incident","url":"https://time.com/5203480/dairy-truck-accident-no-use-crying-over-spilled-milk/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0344de168cec0092/69892b1c096a9477d46a1d91/spilled-milk-bottles-highway-accident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0344de168cec0092/69892b1c096a9477d46a1d91/spilled-milk-bottles-highway-accident.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Crying over Split Milk","caption":"Crying over Split Milk","creditText":"SchulteProductions—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5203480/dairy-truck-accident-no-use-crying-over-spilled-milk/","name":"Dairy Truck Accident Serves As a Reminder to Us All About Spilled Milk"}}]}] ```