Yeah. Totally surreal. Mythology aside, cars don't really burn all that much.
I have seen them twice. Both times alongside highways. (Actually, one was immediately post-burning.)
However, there was a fatal head-on collision a block from my old house (in the same intersection where I had the brush fire experience, synchronistically!) where both cars burst into flames, and a bystander managed to pull one of the drivers (the drunk who caused the accident, so it happens) to safety. The passengers in the other car died.
Rachel, does smoke count? Because I was caught in a massive traffic jam once (also in Vegas) when a tanker truck rolled over under a bridge overpass and burned. I never actually saw the fire, but everybody in southern Nevada saw the plume... *g*
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Date: 2008-08-04 11:47 pm (UTC)I have seen them twice. Both times alongside highways. (Actually, one was immediately post-burning.)
However, there was a fatal head-on collision a block from my old house (in the same intersection where I had the brush fire experience, synchronistically!) where both cars burst into flames, and a bystander managed to pull one of the drivers (the drunk who caused the accident, so it happens) to safety. The passengers in the other car died.
Rachel, does smoke count? Because I was caught in a massive traffic jam once (also in Vegas) when a tanker truck rolled over under a bridge overpass and burned. I never actually saw the fire, but everybody in southern Nevada saw the plume... *g*