New BMWs Destroyed In Semi Truck Fire

Six brand new BMWs were destroyed after a Freightliner commercial semi truck carrying the vehicles caught fire on the Blackwater River Bridge Tuesday night.

William Jeff Morris, 51 of Loganville, Georgia, was traveling west on Interstate 10 approaching the bridge just south of Milton at 9:45 p.m., according to a press release from Florida Highway Patrol. After traveling onto the bridge, a fire developed within the trailer’s structure that caused six of the loaded passenger cars to become fully engulfed in flames.

Morris stopped the truck on the westbound paved shoulder of the bridge and disconnected the truck from the trailer. He was able to save his truck and three loaded cars that were attached to the truck from being burned.