06/29/2025

It’s Mostly “Not the Truckers Causing the Accidents,” Reminds Ohio Trucking Association

The comments came after a fiery tanker wreck with pickup

The Ohio Trucking Association (OTA) is reminding motorists to treat semi trucks with respect in the wake of a fiery wreck involving a reckless pickup truck and a tanker truck hauling fuel.

The crash happened on Sunday, June 22nd, near Columbus, Ohio, when a reckless pickup truck driver crashed into a tanker truck hauling fuel while weaving through traffic. The crash caused a large explosion, but the truck driver managed to escape the incident in stable condition. The pickup truck kept driving, and the motorist later abandoned the vehicle. The motorist is still at large.

"It looked like the kind of thing you see in war movies," said Steve Bell, a crash witness, to MyFox28. "It was just thick black smoke and explosion after explosion inside the fireball that was across both lanes and the entire underside of the bridge. It was 200 or 300 yards in the air. It was huge."

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