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Tractor-trailer overturns after losing control, spilling sod on Tampa road

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A tractor-trailer overturned after its driver lost control and spilled sod onto a Tampa road early Monday morning.

The Florida Highway Patrol said around 7:55 a.m., the driver, a 49-year-old Bowling Green man, was traveling north on SR-589.

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When he exited onto Independence Parkway, he lost control and overturned under the overpass.

The driver was uninjured during the incident.

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