fire firegeezer on 24 Mar 2008 02:47 pm
Don’t Light Your Fireworks In The Pickup Cab
IN A SCENARIO THAT COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN for one of the Dumb and Dumber movies, a pickup truck carrying four yahoos was busting the speed limit on a highway north of Edmonton, Alberta, late Saturday night.
While enjoying their ride, they decided to play with some fireworks and accidently set one of them off. With a cab filling with smoke, explosions and starbursts, the driver panicked and floored the accelerator instead of the brake pedal, running the pickup onto a concrete barrier. From there it sheared off a light pole and then careened full throttle into the Flying J Truck Stop parking area where it slammed into a parked semi that was pulling a double-trailer load of diesel fuel. Up until that moment the semi driver was taking a nap.
The collision ruptured one of the tanks and with the fire works show still in progress the leaking diesel ignited and engulfed both vehicles.
The semi cab was completely
destroyed. (RCMP photo)
Miraculously, everybody successfully bailed out of the pickup and the semi cab before everything took off. The barefoot semi driver ran into the truck stop restaurant screaming “Get out, get out! It’s gonna blow!” said Kelvin Park, 14, whose family owns the truck stop and lives nearby.
This set off a rush of truck drivers scrambling like an anthill to get their trucks out of the parking area as the burning fuel started spreading across the lot while fire engines from four FD’s were rushing toward the truck stop.
Flying J Truck Stop
parking lot. (RCMP photo)
They made a good, fast stop on it, keeping the 2nd tank trailer from failing and containing the fire. The RCMP says that the pickup driver faces several charges.
CTV has the STORY.
The Edmonton Sun has MORE.
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