Truck full of gas cylinders in an accident and the chaos that ensues

[madokie]

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FG1LGKieTxY?autoplay=1&vq=480&rel=0

From the looks of it my guess is this is probably in Russia as many of the motorist there have cameras in their automobiles.

[Warpy]

1. I hope the poor bastard in the truck managed to get out.

Gas cylinders are nasty even when they're not filled with flammable gases.

They've been known to go through cement hospital walls when they've fallen and had the valves knocked off.

ETA: looks like he did in another edit. It's in Russia, good guess.

[madokie]

2. Me too

Makes me nervous because I have oxygen cylinders in my home now. One almost as big as what I used to have when I had a cutting torch setup. Its about 6 inch in diameter and three feet tall.
I will be getting these removed the next visit from the supplier. I might keep a few of the smaller ones but the heck with keeping all the bigger ones. The Concentrator is pretty much all I use anyway and I don't use it very much as I don't see as it helps me all that much, enough to be tethered to it anyway.

[Warpy]

7. Well, the three footers are what will keep you mobile

unless you want to spend money on a smaller concentrator.

[Historic NY]

9. In the very beginning he is running and ducking....

A short distance from my house they bring in loads of BBQ grill tanks for re-filling and transport to locations by truck.....its scary to think how many would be airborne.

[gerogie2]

10. The driver did get out.

He was running from the left side of the truck all the way across the highway. He knew that all hell was about to break loose.

[Suich]

3. Here's a link from Reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam/

My understanding is that there is so much car insurance fraud in Russia, a lot of drivers have installed cameras.

[madokie]

4. Because of that we got all those shots of the meteor that hit Russia a while back

and from them they were able to deduce that the explosion was from a meteor rather than a gas or some other explosive, a terrorist even.

At the price that cameras are getting down to I'm tempted to buy one just for shits and grins, just in case in my travels if something was to happen I'd have video of it

[Bosonic]

12. In case anyone missed this hall of fame Roadcam clip (best with audio)...

[Calista241]

13. Lol. Best YouTube video ever!

[TorchTheWitch]

17. stalker bunny is better

[Historic NY]

14. Snort.

[Eleanors38]

15. That'll cut back on car-jacking. Too embarrassing.

[Go Vols]

18. Great

[Earth_First]

5. Holy cow!

I hope the truck driver was able to get away safely!

Two years ago one town over from ours a residential propane supply company caught fire.

Tanks were exploding like bombs as crews attempted to battle the blaze. Luckily only one firefighter sustained injury.

Several of the larger tanks were found as far away as 200 yards from the site of the fire.

Closed the entire town an several neighborhoods down for nearly a full day.

[madokie]

6. That happened in north Tulsa a couple years ago

one of Airgas's supply depots caught fire and it caused all kinds of havoc.

[Warpy]

8. There's another edit out there, the driver got out

and not being stupid, jumped over the Jersey barriers onto the other side of the highway. He did appear to be limping a little.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Watch your hot @$$!

Airgas had a plant blow up here about a year ago. That guy running around holding his ears in that video, was lucky he wasn't ripped up by the fragments of those acetylene bottles that were cooking off.

[Eleanors38]

16. It's a Gas!