‘Final Destination…': Box truck explosion in Illinois caught on camera, leaves homes damaged and Internet shaken
A quiet street in Addison, Illinois, in the United States turned into a scene of chaos on Sunday when a box truck suddenly exploded while driving by, sending debris flying and startling the neighbourhood. The blast was so powerful that pieces of the truck, along with scattered clothing and broken furniture, were left strewn across the area. Fortunately, the driver survived the accident.
CBS News reported that the truck had been rented by a man who was using it to move his personal belongings. Authorities, including local police, the bomb squad, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), later traced the cause of the explosion to a propane tank leak inside the vehicle.
The dramatic moment was captured on a nearby home security camera and has since gone viral on social media, racking up millions of views.
The impact of the blast was significant — four homes were damaged, and one was deemed temporarily unsafe to live in. One of the truck's walls was hurled straight into a house, smashing into a load-bearing wall and pushing it inward by several feet. Addison Fire Protection District Chief Brock Herion said the homeowners 'kind of described it as an earthquake, and then a tree falling on their house'.
A truck explosion in Chicago was captured by a home security camera
The driver survived and police said the cause may have been a propane tank leak
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Online, the footage left viewers stunned. One person tweeted, 'yea I'm not driving my car for the rest of the year,' while another wrote, 'Sheeesh. I'd never go near a propane tank ever again.'
A third user shared, 'Ive seen a real propane tank leak explode before and it was like a bomb went off it was a house one street across from me and it was so bad my windows shook from like a football fields length away.'
A fourth individual wrote, 'Final Destination promo is getting more and more insane,' while a fifth user wrote, 'ever since final destination bloodlines came out, things have been getting a lil bit too real.'
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