Two semi trucks burned to the ground in a crash that made a “boom” on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened on April 15th at about 2 p.m. on the Pennsylvania Turnpike between the Quakertown and Lehigh Valley exits near Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
According to CBS, the two rig crash caused both commercial vehicles to catch fire on a Northeast Extension of the Turnpike. Cleanup of the crash forced the closure of the roadway in the area for about nine hours. The crash was cleared at about 11 p.m. that night.
Residents who live near the site of the crash say that the wreck created a lot of smoke and noise on a day with a lot of wind.
“All of a sudden, I just hear this loud boom, and I go, ‘you know, what the heck is that?'” explained Adrianice Pacheco Ortiz. “Oh my, it’s a sound that I kind of can’t explain. It sounded kind of like, like, if you take a really big drum really loud, and it just kind of like echoed throughout.”
“I heard this, ‘boom, boom, boom’, and I’m thinking, what’s my neighbor doing?” added Donna Diehl. “I thought, ‘God, I hope to God, nobody got hurt.”
The cause of the crash is not known, and no details have been released regarding injuries, but 69 News reports that no one was seriously hurt. One of the semi trucks was reportedly hauling train wheels, and the other was empty.