Tanker truck erupts into flames after collision on Texas freeway

A tanker truck collided with one other automobile on a Texas freeway on Wednesday, inflicting the truck to erupt into massive flames that took hours to extinguish.

The tanker truck collided with one other automobile round 5 a.m. on U.S. Freeway 75 in Plano, Texas, on Wednesday within the northbound lanes.

The truck driver misplaced management of the automobile for unknown causes, inflicting it to roll onto its aspect, hitting one other 18-wheeler and a automotive, Fox 4 News reported.

The truck driver and the driving force of the opposite automobile have been taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, police stated.

A Good Sanitarian helped pull the driving force from the trailer cab, CBS Texas reported.

Aerial footage of the crash exhibits massive, pink flames consuming the overturned automobile as a thick, black cloud of smoke clogged a number of hundred ft of the sky.

Firefighters let the truck burn for greater than 4 hours because it was the “cleanest and best factor to do,” Captain Michael Carr stated, in response to Fox 4 Information.

“If we begin placing water on it, after which it drains into the sewer system then we’ve got to fret concerning the water getting contaminated,” Carr stated.

The tanker was carrying unleaded gas.

The Plano Police Division stated the reason for the accident was “nonetheless being decided.”

U.S. Freeway 75’s northbound lanes have been shut down for hours, however have since reopened with delays.