Semitruck driver jumps through flames to safety after crash on highway
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A semi driver in Ohio was caught on video jumping through flames to escape a fire after his truck crashed into a median Sunday.
According to the Akron Fire Department, no one was injured after the driver pulled to the side of I-77 North after he hit the median near Akron.
The video shows the semitruck engulfed in fire.
“The impact also caused a rupture of the passenger side fuel tank which also ignited, the fuel that is,” Lt. Robert Langston with the fire department said. “It caused the fire to spread beyond the area of the truck itself. The driver did escape without injury.”
Investigators are still working to determine what led to the crash.
Fire crews extinguished the fire and hazmat confined a fuel spill to the highway.
Officers with the Akron Police Department were called to the scene around 8:30 p.m.
The highway was reopened around midnight.
The man was taken to the hospital to get checked out but was found to be uninjured.
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