CCTV has captured the horrifying moment an ethanol tanker flips on a busy highway and sets fire to 25 vehicles.
The blaze erupted in Santa Catarina, Brazil, last Sunday afternoon when the truck overturned and exploded.
The vehicle can be seen approaching a corner on a highway when it topples onto its side and slides down the road.
A huge wave of ethanol hits the pavement and immediately catches fire.
First the blaze surrounds the toppled truck but, as the gas trickles further down, it gradually engulfs a long line of cars.
Vehicles inch away from the blaze before drivers abandon their cars and flee on foot.
In total, 22 cars and three trucks were affected and five people were injured.
In another clip shared to X, a passerby films the damage.
Footage shows the truck toppling over and erupting into flames on the Brazilian highway
Ethanol spills from the truck and is immediately set alight, as 25 vehicles are stuck behind
Another video shows the fallout of the disaster, with ashy burnt-out cars lining the road
Burnt-out cars emit grey smoke and rubble is visible along the roads.
The truck driver’s wife was in the vehicle and both suffered burns to their arms and legs.
Firefighters from several cities arrived to control the fire, and a vehicle with explosives was removed from the area.
The incident closed the highway in both directions.
With an abundance of vehicles driving at high speeds, highways frequently set the scene for danger.
A highway worker barely escaped death last year by diving out of the way of a speeding truck that slammed into his work vehicle on a New York thoroughfare.
State Department of Transportation employee Chuck Ellerson, 61, was busy mowing and clearing garbage from the road when he noticed the rapidly approaching truck.
Sandwiched between two DOT vehicles parked on the highway’s shoulder, Ellerson saw the yellow box truck closely hugging the shoulder before throwing his hands up.
A huge wave of ethanol flies into the air before landing on the road
The affected cars emit a thick, grey smoke which covers the whole area
Firefighters are pictured at the scene, after drivers abandoned their cars to flee on foot
A burnt car sits next to the wreck of the toppled, still alight truck
Realising the truck was barreling in his direction, he stepped back in the nick of time as the rig plowed into the vehicle in front of him.
Ellerson’s hard hat was sent flying as he ran to safety.
‘I tried to get out of the way the best I can,’ Ellerson told Good Morning America.
‘Next thing I know I said, “This guy is not going to miss me.”
‘I dove into the ditch a little bit, grabbed my hard hat and put it back on and sat there and tried to catch my senses for a long time.’
And earlier this year, an enormous bridge collapsed at an expressway construction site in South Korea leaving four construction workers dead and six others injured.
A bridge collapsed at a construction site in South Korea leaving four workers dead and six injured (Pictured: the aftermath of the incident)
Shocking dashcam footage shows the giant structure folding in on itself and crashing down to the ground at 9.50am local time in Anseong, around 65 km south of Seoul.
According to local news site Yonhap, eight workers were directly beneath the bridge at the time of the accident.
Four people were killed, five were seriously injured and one suffered a minor injury, a statement from the National Fire Agency said.
Of those killed, two were Chinese nationals and two were South Koreans, an interior ministry official told AFP.
