Eyewitnesses reported hearing explosions as a tanker truck carrying propane burst into flames on the Long Island Expressway in Queens.
Brian Prahl / MEGA
Posted on 12/22/2020 10:51:18 AM PST by texas booster
This is the moment a tractor-trailer carrying nearly 300 propane tanks exploded after an accident on the Long Island Expressway early Tuesday — a crash likely caused by black ice, according to cops.
Dramatic footage shows the massive inferno just after midnight on the eastbound service road of the highway near Junction Boulevard in Queens — with clips catching several explosions from the 294 propane tanks being carried.
Police investigators found black ice just before the crash, and believe the tanker truck likely overturned after slipping on the ice — possibly while trying to avoid another vehicle that also skidded on it, an NYPD spokesman told The Post.
Amazingly, the driver escaped without injury, the spokesman said.
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Oh the fire outside is frightful,....
yes i modified it a bit
Even dumber, they are all wearing masks even though no one is anywhere near them. It gets me how panicked and hysterical some people are. I’ve seen people alone in their cars on bright, sunny days wearing masks.
Covid is smart, it picks off stupid people.
That and the fact that you would never get any horse anywhere near that fire.
She don’t lie she don’t lie she don’t lie.......propane!
Two years ago we were staying in Manhattan on vacation and the sound of the trash trucks banging dumpsters at 4am was constant.
Probably so, unless it had blinders on.
Doesn’t blaming this on “black ice” seem like overt racism?
Couldn’t the media call it vanilla ice?
Still, horrifying.
I have visited, last time just stayed in Jersey and rode the bus or PATH in because it’s so much more awful in town. Don’t think I’m ever going back—no reason to. Ugh...
COVID
Yeah for a guy used to rural Indiana, it’s quite intimidating.
We did like the 911 memorial. Quite shocking how unvarnished the presentation of that all is. Did not expect it.
“Butane is a bastard fuel.” - Bobby Hill. (Wonder where he gets if from?)
294 tanks of propane 'sploding on the LIE at Exit 19. You know the code, because it's also the point at end, at 147, x 2:
Twas those lil' tanks for BBQ grills. Like popcorn, only different:
LIE. Turned up-side down it's a drinking holiday, even the same date as Purim, in 1946. (Or in 2022.)
CORONA, Queens (WABC) -- A truck carrying propane tanks overturned and exploded in flames on a Long Island Expressway exit ramp in Queens.
The westbound truck flipped in the exit lanes to Queens Boulevard just after 12 a.m. Tuesday.Long Island Expressway crash: Propane tanks explode into flames after truck overturns
Didn't Jerry Reed have a song about this?
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
A' we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm east bound, just watch ol' Bandit run.
Looks like a “mostly peaceful” Antifa truck....
The only thing that can defeat black ice is The Man.
That’s not a tractor trailer.
It was a straight truck based on the photos.
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