A motorcycle and its driver were captured going up in flames and narrowly missing a group of children in Texas.
Dramatic home surveillance footage captured by San Antonio resident Robert Perez showed the moment a rider lost control of a motorcycle on a residential road before he and his bike erupted into a fireball on Thursday afternoon.
The unidentified driver was seen skidding along the pavement as his bike did the same just a little bit ahead of him.
The motorcycle then slammed into the curb where four children were standing.
As they saw the bike closing in, the kids scattered and ran for their lives.
After exploding, the bike broke into multiple pieces. The rider then lit up in flames and ran across the street, attempting to put out the fire.
The driver was taken to a nearby hospital with second-degree burns, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.
None of the children were injured during the incident, something Perez is astonished by.
Home surveillance footage captured the moment a motorcycle erupted into flames after crashing on a residential road in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday afternoon
The driver of the bike also caught on fire and is seen running away in an attempt to fan the flames away
‘I think it’s nothing short of a miracle that there was not a single child that was hurt,’ he told ABC7.
Perez added: ‘I did not expect to see a big fireball in the air with children standing there.’
He recalled watching the camera just before the eruption, seeing as the kids walked ‘closer and closer’.
‘And I said “Oh no, don’t tell me those children were still there when it happened”,’ Perez said.
Later footage showed a firetruck at the scene as emergency personnel assessed the damage.
Debris from the destroyed bike was seen scattered across the road and lawn just outside of Perez’s house.
Neighbors in the area told the outlet out of control driving is all too common in the area, and that they want four-way stop signs and speed bumps installed to help quell the issue.
‘You don’t have to drive that fast, and for people in the neighborhood, just slow down, take it easy a bit because there are children that play,’ Perez said.
The Daily Mail contacted the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office for comment.
