This Dodge RAM pickup up driver drove through a gas pump, started a fire, ran for it, and got picked up by Texas cops in one wild day.
Most motorists know that one of the last places you want to point the front of your vehicle is a gas pump. I mean, alongside a cliff with a sheer drop, it’s just not a very self-preservationist move. Well, no one told this driver in a white Dodge RAM pickup truck. The hit-and-run RAM driver drove straight into a gas station pump and took off into the night leaving a fire in his wake.
A wayward Dodge RAM driver took out a fuel pump before backing up and driving away from a resultant fire
A gas pump works best when a driver pulls alongside with its fuel door on the same side as the nozzle. However, one Dodge RAM driver decided the best way to use a Texas gas station was to plow right through a fuel pump and start a fire in the process.
Video of the incident captures Trevion Bowie, the RAM driver, inexplicably crashing into a fuel pump. In a comedy of errors, he doesn’t stop, completely displacing the upright pump and driving over the ground connections. Viewers can see a fire spark almost immediately after the pickup truck bounces over the base of the pump.
Bowie then puts the four-door RAM truck in reverse, dragging the pump back over its base and across part of the gas station’s parking lot. In a look that brings to mind Marty McFly and the time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 from “Back to the Future,” the truck and pump leave a linear path of fire.
Less humorously, the driver continues to back away after the grievous error in judgment. He turns his wheels and pulls away into the darkness. Bowie managed to escape from the scene at around 3 AM. Understandably, the Exxon gas station shut down while first responders and crews dealt with the damage.
Fortunately, police investigations led to Bowie’s address. Law enforcement found the damaged fourth-generation Dodge RAM pickup truck at the address. Consequently, police arrested Bowie for the hit-and-run incident. Thankfully, neither the crash nor the fire resulted in any injuries or fatalities.
