02-01-10
Chilli Choke Crash
Lowell, Massachusetts
A truck driver has found that chomping on chilli while driving can be a hazardous way to replenish calories.
The 59 year old truck driver was mid-munch when his truck hit a bump in the road causing him to choke on his chili. The choking led him to lose consciousness, when he came to again his truck was embedded in the side of a house.
Thankfully nobody was seriously injured in the accident though the driver, Eric Gremm, suffered a cut on the bridge of his nose. An unnamed woman who was in the house as the accident happened was said to have been visibly shaken (which comes as little surprise).
The video below shows the extent of the damage to the five-bedroom house, it really is a wonder that serious injury was avoided: