A U.S. Postal Service delivery truck exploded into a ball of flames on a residential street in Kansas City, MO. Resident Brian Riley caught video of the incident on his home security camera.
“I could hear tires for like 10, 15 minutes, just tires squealing, like someone was stuck in the snow,” Riley said. “I didn’t think much about it.”
After his dogs began barking loudly, Riley peeked outside and couldn’t believe his eyes. He and other neighbors watched helplessly as the fully engulfed truck then rolled backward before coming to a stop on a neighbor’s front yard.
“It looked like one of those scenes out of ‘Back to the Future,’ where you’ve just got the fire trails from the vehicle. But I definitely don’t think he got up to 88 miles per hour.”
Riley suspects the driver blew a tire after gunning the engine, in a nearly futile attempt to crest an icy incline on the road.
“There was a point where, for almost 10 minutes straight, he did not let up on the gas,” Riley said. “He was pushing it beyond insanity, and you could just tell the way he was going that he was getting more and more mad the whole time.”
A spokesperson for the postal service said the driver wasn’t injured, and the fire is under investigation.
Riley said that neighbors have filed complaints with this mail carrier in the past. “I don’t think this surprised any of us at all that this even happened,” Riley said. “That’s the one and only time I’ve ever actually seen our mailman get out of his vehicle.”
[Fox 4 KC]
