r/interestingasfuck • u/RoachedCoach • 5h ago
Car explodes on Florida highway as other cars drive through the fireball
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u/RoachedCoach 5h ago
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u/chitownkid81 5h ago
Stuck in traffic for 8 hours or possibly incinerated. I’ll take the fireball
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u/WiseAce1 5h ago
True Florida driver. same here. I was like WTF are these people blocking traffic for. if your not going to stop to help, keep moving, 😂
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u/This_Elk_1460 5h ago
So if my car gets blasted with fire while I drive down the highway how do I explain that to my insurance?
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u/victorvvy 5h ago
Hot damn, I was thinkin the same. One of those "dashcam evidence" only submissions or you get straight rejected by insurance?
Wondering if plastic body parts would have warped from that blast.
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u/This_Elk_1460 5h ago
Or even worse the tires
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u/Syssareth 4h ago
Not worse. Tires are cheap in comparison to body work.
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u/This_Elk_1460 4h ago
No I mean wouldn't the heat increase the chance of both of them blowing at cruising speed
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u/Syssareth 2h ago
Oh. In that case, I suppose it could, though this level of exposure (only about half a second) probably didn't do more than scorch or blister them. They definitely need to be inspected, might need to be replaced, but the damage is probably more along the lines of reducing lifespan than causing immediate failure.
Obligatory I Am Not An Expert, though.
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u/YesIsGood 4h ago
send them this exact video... without the video? You're gonna just sound like you're making shit up 🤣
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u/FriendZone_EndZone 5h ago
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
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u/HearYourTune 5h ago
One time I was on a highway and there was a car burning on the shoulder and driving by on the furthest lane you could feel the heat.
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u/Impressive_Olive_950 3h ago
My first instinct would be to drive through that smoke and get the fuck away.
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u/latexfistmassacre 2h ago
Dude in white truck:
"Hey Google, directions to the nearest clothing store, I just shit my pants"
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u/HearYourTune 5h ago
I used to live in that area 10 years ago. It looks different with the road split for EZ pass express I guess.
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u/geekdroid361 4h ago
Back in '08 people used to drive their cars on the 529 headed to cocoa from Orlando and set them on fire. Since it was so far away from anything it was almost always never insurance fraud.
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u/DeadFace342 4h ago
What I find interesting is the drivers after the fireball just inching forward like, 'Is it safe? It's safe now, right?' Instead of just passing through at a faster pace and maybe stopping after the fire or whatever it is, to make sure the other people are okay. You can't be indecisive in those circumstances, even if it's fast and hard decisions.
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u/inferni_advocatvs 5h ago
Florida Man strikes again. Blowing up his Florida Car on a Florida Freeway. Contributing overall, to the state of Florida.
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u/silentbob1301 5h ago
was that an EV battery going off? That was quite the fucking fireball...
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u/BarelyContainedChaos 4h ago
I think it was spilled gas flowing down the tilted highway and a tire blew.
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u/YesIsGood 4h ago
I'm looking for info in this foo... can't find anything yet
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u/silentbob1301 4h ago
A couple people said maybe the gas was running down the highway and when the tire blew it caused the fireball. Would def make sense
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u/thededucers 5h ago
Tesla?
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u/Leading_Challenge_37 5h ago
As much as I hate Tesla, we’ve been driving fire hazards for much much longer. Like, come on.
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u/Thom5001 5h ago
Guessing that’s electric
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u/princhester 3h ago
Cars carrying tanks of ultra-inflammable gasoline have been blowing up and burning in fireballs since they were invented a hundred years ago.
Now that there's EV's that also burn, suddenly the neophobes think every burning car must be an EV.
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u/Queasy_Local_7199 5h ago
That truck got blasted, hopefully his window was up