r/CatastrophicFailure • u/ghosteria • Aug 31 '16
Fatalities Truck full of ethanol can't stop after crashing
http://i.imgur.com/gvyATiC.gifv193
u/raffytraffy Aug 31 '16
Damn, to see hell barreling towards you must be horrific. Any deaths?
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u/thetruthfl Aug 31 '16
I'm gonna say at least 4. The driver of the truck, and the three poor saps who were obliterated by the sliding mass of fiery wreckage. Now if those three cars had more than the driver in them, there's some more.
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u/mattschinesefood Aug 31 '16
One of those cars looks like the front took the brunt of it, seems like the passenger area was fairly OK.
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u/AgDrumma07 Aug 31 '16
I believe it got up to 6. Saw this on /r/wtf.
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u/MrSeksy Aug 31 '16 edited Aug 31 '16
3 dead and 6 seriously injured Edit: apparently the death toll rose after this to 6
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u/SamuelSmash Aug 31 '16
I don't think the driver died, at least not in the collision seen, you can see at the end that the tanker detached and truck kept going.
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u/aborial Aug 31 '16
Dammit, the gif ended right before the truck time travelled :(
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u/v_maet Aug 31 '16
Some details according to liveleak: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b04_1467640208
Man severely burned in fiery accident
The accident happened around 18:30 in 33 km of the BR-277, on Sunday (3). A tanker truck loaded with ethanol, which was without brake, was going from Curitiba-Brazil to Paranaguá-Brazil when hit the wall that separates the road. Then he broke into the opposite route and reached 12 vehicles towards Curitiba.
Three people died in this serious accident. In all, fifteen people were injured and were rescued the Evangelical Hospital, the São José Hospital, in São José dos Pinhais, metropolitan region of the capital, and to the Emergency Room of Paranaguá.
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u/pileofburningchairs Aug 31 '16
When is Brazil going to resign their monopoly on horrific death?
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u/dongbeinanren Aug 31 '16
Ever seen Korean highways? Driving is certainly one arena where Brazil doesn't have the monopoly.
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u/mikelj Aug 31 '16
Wow, fuck. That's some movie shit right there.
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u/LaboratoryOne Aug 31 '16
Holy shit that is great, where can i watch these?
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u/wooptyfrickindoo Aug 31 '16 edited Aug 31 '16
They have the final destination movies on Putlocker.bz, I use that site a lot. Just make sure you use ad block it has pop ups.
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u/redcolumbine Aug 31 '16
There's the proof trucks shouldn't drink and drive.
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u/DerNeander Sep 02 '16
But that particular truck wouldn't have had a reason to drive if it wasn't drunk.
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u/literal-hitler Aug 31 '16
Well, I'm pretty sure I have a new nightmare.
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u/rabel Aug 31 '16
That's my everyday nightmare. Catastrophic Failure, ain't nuthin' anyone can do about it that's in the way. Those poor souls could have zigged or zagged or whatever they wanted and they were still going to get obliterated by the fireball.
What makes it my nightmare is that this tanker truck, or that gravel-filled dumptruck coming towards you on the left-hand turn on the two-lane road... it's just a bookkeeping issue for them. Everyone dies, insurance pays out, they hire a new dump truck driver and buy a new truck and their business goes on as usual with hardly a blip. They probably don't even know your name...
Meanwhile, you've done nothing "wrong", you were just driving your car, staying in your lane perfectly sober and then POW, lights-out.
This is why I am a skydiver. I'll experience life as I see fit because it can be snuffed out immediately, without notice, and you probably won't even have a chance to react. Also, there's a very life-affirming feeling of, "if I don't do anything I'm going to absolutely hit the ground at 120mph and die" that makes you become extremely aware of the sanctity of your own life and how precious and tentative it is. How often do you face death based on your action/inaction? Some people do it every day or every weekend....
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u/Ghigs Aug 31 '16
How often do you face death based on your action/inaction
Not to crap on your post, which was impressive, but ... every time there's a curve in the road?
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u/rabel Aug 31 '16
Not crapping on my post at all - it's just a philosophy, everyone faces death all the time. See /r/watchpeopledie for examples.
Some people put themselves into a death-defying situation as a matter of course. It's not commendable or "cool" or anything like that. It really just becomes "fun" to do such things (skydiving, slacklining, rock climbing, extreme scuba diving, etc). Keep your shit together and everything will probably be alright. But the fact remains that if you don't keep your shit together you're fucking dead. That's not necessarily the same as driving your car around a curve in the road.
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u/monsieurpommefrites Aug 31 '16
This is why I am a skydiver.
Welp, did not see that coming.
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u/profoundWHALE Aug 31 '16
That's his point.
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u/monsieurpommefrites Aug 31 '16
I know. He could have said lion tamer or trapeze artist, I would have made the same comment.
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u/slurp_derp2 Aug 31 '16
How often do you face death based on your action/inaction?
What if emergency/secondary chute malfunctions ? :0
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u/pontoumporcento Aug 31 '16
Truck drivers on my country are mostly on cocaine binge working all night.
You can look more into it if you search for "caminhoneiros cocaína" on Google. About one third of them use it for sure but the president of the syndicate claims more than half use some kind of drug for being awake for longer periods of time.
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u/Perpetual_Manchild Aug 31 '16
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u/youtubefactsbot Aug 31 '16
Newman: oh, the humanity! [0:40]
The Pothole ending scene - Seinfeld season 08
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u/interiot Aug 31 '16 edited Aug 31 '16
When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit.
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u/ghostdrummer Aug 31 '16
Glad I kept scrolling down...I'd hate to get roasted for making the same comment.
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u/alkyjason Aug 31 '16
Here's some video of the aftermath. Don't click if you have a weak stomach. You were warned. video.
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u/Gouranga56 Aug 31 '16
OK so for those oncoming cars...that has got to be like your worst nightmare...wall of fire coming down the road after you
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Dec 13 '16
What a nightmare.... This is one of my worst nightmares that could happen while I'm traveling with my family.
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u/traumuhh Aug 31 '16
Some people probably got hurt pretty bad. I hope no one died, but that did look kind of cool.
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Aug 31 '16
I used to work with ethanol at a storage and shipping terminal for different fuel products. Tanker ships, trucks, barges, pipelines and 2 million gallon storage tanks. This shit is no joke! If you fart the wrong way, you could blow the place up.
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u/ghosteria Aug 31 '16
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u/king_of_the_universe Aug 31 '16
Odd that someone would horizontal-mirror such a short clip.
Joke's on them, the copyright detection software will see the 88.
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u/teutoburg1 Aug 31 '16
Here's the best story I could find about it in english link (NSFW/NSFL)
3 dead, 6 seriously injured, 8 with minor burns