Dramatic video shows fiery crash involving dump truck on Ohio highway

Terrifying footage caught a dump truck in Ohio plowing into one other automobile parked on the shoulder of a busy freeway and inflicting an explosion.

The incident happened simply after 7:20 a.m. Thursday on I-77 in Akron, after an Ohio Division of Transportation automobile pulled over to gather some trash from the roadway.

The unnamed ODOT worker was nonetheless sitting within the automotive when a dump truck veered out of its lane and smashed into the parked automobile with out ever showing to decelerate, footage reveals.

The influence produced an explosion and engulfed each autos in a fireball, sending orange flames and thick black smoke capturing into the morning sky.

A half-dozen motorists stopped to assist the victims, reported Information 5 Cleveland.

Deputies from the Summit County Sheriff’s Workplace who have been referred to as to the scene needed to extract the drivers of each autos.

Throughout a press convention held in entrance of the scorched wreckage, ODOT District 4 Deputy Gery Noirot described the injured staffer as a married dad and a grandfather, and mentioned it was “nothing wanting a miracle that he survived.”

Noirot added that the injured man has been with the division for a decade and was on his option to decide up a bit of kit when the crash occurred.

“It was horrific to see that crash. And to assume that he survived this … somebody was clearly wanting over him,” Noirot informed reporters.

The ODOT launched an announcement on its Fb web page Thursday revealing that the morning crash marked the 82nd time that one in all its crews has been hit to this point this 12 months.

“We’re extraordinarily lucky he’s alive,” the company mentioned of its injured driver.