ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A fuel tanker crashed and sprung a small leak early Tuesday after the driver was hit by a bottle rocket as he drove past a group of youths, authorities said.
The driver was seriously injured, and two or three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution, they said.
The truck struck a curb and a fire hydrant before tumbling down an embankment into a parking lot.
A small amount of fuel leaked from a valve but firefighters quickly contained it, police Sgt. J.L. Hensal said. “The truck stayed pretty much intact,” he said.
Police Sgt. Kevin Iosty said no arrests had been made.
The truck driver, Rafael Diaz, had just passed a group of eight to 11 juveniles on the side of the road when one of them fired a bottle rocket into the truck cab, hitting him in the head, Iosty said.
Diaz, 29, of Woodstock, was being treated at Grady Memorial Hospital for serious facial and head injuries, Iosty said.
Others in the group may have also thrown concrete chunks and bricks at the truck, he said.
It’s a sad state when now you’ll have kids who’d think nothing of their destructive and harmful behavior. Obviously they do not think of the consequences of their actions nor of anyone but themselves for that matter. Seems to me also that by the parental units being absent this whole time that this would be passively approved. I’d say let’s huck a few concrete chunks at them and see how they like it!
And we don’t know how old these “juveniles” are. Are they 6? 11? 17?
Bah.
Shouldn’t that read “Kids will be idiots”?
That’s true enough! :)