(Editor’s Note: This is one of the wildest videos that we showed you in 2014. If you missed it the first time, watch this disaster now. It’ll make you look at the next truck full of gas cannisters you see totally different!)
Ever seen those rack trucks driving down the highway full of big gas cylinders filled with stuff for welders, medical supply, and other industrial applications? Ever wondered what would happen if one of those trucks was ever involved in a serious accident and burst into flames? Wonder no more because we have video from Russia (SHOCKER) that gives a first hand account of the horror that ensues. Right from jump street, this video goes off the rails.
The first thing you’ll see is the offending truck pass the camera car, which is equipped with the standard issue Russian dash-cam. We’re not sure if the truck driver is a maniac, if the brakes are out, if the throttle is stuck, but the driver plows headlong into what looks to be a bus or something equally as large. The truck is instantly destroyed, the gas tanks rupture and it is fire city. The camera car sits behind the truck for a moment and then the film cuts and we’re relocated to the other side of the highway looking at the truck from a still very unsafe distance. At about :55 all hell starts breaking loose as the cylinders start exploding…one by one.
For the next three minutes there’s massive explosion after explosion, gas cylinders flying through the air, shrapnel landing within seeming arm’s reach of the camera, and people videotaping the whole thing. At one point a police car gets way up close to the truck and then reconsiders its position when the explosions start coming hot and heavy. It is incredible to watch the huge cylinders launch like rockets. Pay attention to the lunatic who is wandering around the scene on his freaking cell phone! Hey pal, you’ll get reception on the other side of the concrete wall.
We’ve seen the photos of how badly a little nitrous bottle exploding can mangle a car or a trailer and those things are juice boxes as compared to these big boys. There’s a mushroom cloud every time one of the cylinders blows up. We’re kind of amazed that the chunks of exploding bottle aren’t blasting out the windows of these people’s cars and stuff. The whole thing is totally surreal and we’re going to make sure we give every gas cylinder truck a wide berth on the highway from now on.
PRESS PLAY BELOW AND THEN DUCK! THIS IS ALMOST FOUR MINUTES OF EXPLODING INSANITY –
