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GREENSBURG; Ind. — There are some things you just have to see to believe: like a semitrailer jumping the interstate and exploding on impact.
That didn't happen in a movie, it happened in Indiana.
Dash-cam video caught a semitrailer lose control and then jump the interstate. The driver had his 7-year-old son with him, but thankfully, neither were hurt.
The driver, 30-year-old Ryan Young, said he swerved to avoid another vehicle, drifting into his lane, and that's when he lost control.
"He swerved to avoid the other vehicle and ran off the south side of the interstate," Indiana State Police Sgt. Noel Houze explained to the Indy Star via email. "The semi ran up a hill then through a guardrail. The semi continued eastbound as it ‘ramped' the U.S. 421 interchange before striking another guardrail, tearing off the fuel tanks (and) causing the fuel to ignite."
Both the driver and his son suffered some bumps and bruises, but nothing serious.
