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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Heat Soaked Road Buckles, Sending Car Flying
Read the full story on The Auto Wire We've seen cars go flying before, but never because the road has buckled from heat, but just such a thing was caught on camera. Had it not been captured on video, we don't know if we or anyone else with any sense would've believed this happened, it's just that road buckling in question happened in Cap Girardeau, Missouri during a recent heatwave. We've personally seen pavement get so hot in places like Phoenix, Arizona that it becomes mushy, but never before have we seen a road buckle under heat. But this one obviously did and right in front of the local Honda dealership. However, the car that went flying the moment the road became a ramp was a Toyota Corolla. As the compact car is approaching the seam in the road, which already is looking a little uneven, both ends suddenly lift up, the attached curbing rising up like logs in upheaval. The Corolla driver fails to notice the sudden change in the road's surface, and the little car goes flying through the air like in a Dukes of Hazzard episode. When the Toyota comes back down to the pavement, the front end slams on the street with a sickening sound. We hope no serious damage was done to the vehicle, but the risk certainly is there. Plenty of people who have seen the footage on social media had the same thought we did: had the driver been paying attention, he should have been able to hit the brakes and would've avoided the launch into the air. Plus, there's a warning sign of some sort along with traffic cones where the seam in the road is already uneven. That alone should've put the Corolla driver on alert. This just goes to show some people just don't pay attention when they're driving. That and roads can apparently buckle during a heatwave. Image via accuweather/X Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
WATCH: Car goes airborne as road buckles under extreme heat in Cape Girardeau
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – A video is circulating throughout social media as a road buckled under this weekend's intense heat in a second, causing a car to go airborne. The video, taken by Albert Blackwell, shows several cars passing over what first was a small bump. It was marked by a construction sign and a cone in the middle of the road near the Honda dealership in Cape Girardeau. Later in the video, that bump had visibly grown. As one car passes on the other side, the road suddenly shifted and buckled just a split second before another car reached it, forcing the vehicle to fly into the air. WATCH: Car goes airborne as road buckles under extreme heat in Cape Girardeau When we experience extreme heat, roads can crack, buckle, or warp, according to MoDOT. They told FOX 2 in a former report that this happens when a crack in the roadway has moisture that's seeped in, forcing the crack to grow and expand. The pavement gets to be weaker from the crack, the heat then causes the road to buckle and warp. MoDOT says it never truly knows when or where a pavement buckle may occur, but when it gets hot outside, there is potential everywhere. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Drive
23-06-2025
- Climate
- The Drive
Extreme Heat Caused This Road To Buckle and a Corolla To Fly
The latest car news, reviews, and features. I don't know how your Monday's going, but the ambient temp in my New York office is about 85 Farenheight and the dehumidifier next to me pulled three gallons of water from the air before lunch. This heatwave is hitting a whole lot of America right now. Down in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, roads are buckling so badly that one hurled this hapless Toyota Corolla into the air like a dang Mario Kart power-up. Though I don't expect the driver was giggling on the other end. The video below that's making the rounds is credited to Albert Blackwell, who reportedly had been videoing a bulge in the road when it snapped right in front of a moving car. 'When I went back to get a front angle of cars going over the smaller buckle, the road exploded and rose over 18 inches, sending a car airborne,' Blackwell told Local 12 . It doesn't sound like anyone's heard from the driver of that current-gen Corolla sedan that gets major air in the clip. It's absolutely wild how quickly the road pops up to such a steep angle—it could have caught anybody off-guard. Hopefully, they're OK and get the chance to appreciate this inadvertently epic footage of their car. If it were mine, I would be inspecting the underside of that thing carefully for frame cracks and oil pan damage. But Corollas are tough—maybe it's OK! View this post on Instagram A post shared by AccuWeather (@accuweather) The city of Cape Girardeau confirmed on its official Facebook page that 'Both Broadway and Siemers buckled in this heat wave. Thank you to the crews for managing traffic and the temporary fix on Seimers. We will return to temporary street patches to complete a full repair.' It also issued a warning that more streets might buckle this week as the heat shows no signs of easing up. Pretty much everything expands and contracts as it heats up and cools down. Most roads are built with this in mind, and there's some leeway for expansion, but in some situations, like when the heat is just too extreme, that doesn't cut it. In such a case, the road suddenly is too big for the space it's occupying. And when that happens, pop , the road can make itself into a jump. I mean, a crack. Just a crack that looked and acted like a jump here. To capture the exact moment of that happening on video is neat; to have it happen a few feet ahead of a fast-moving car to create an impromptu jump is unreal. Too bad about the mailbox in the way—this Corolla would have a great rallycross audition tape. Too bad about the Earth's deteriorating environmental conditions, too. It's going to be a rough week for a lot of us! Seen any other wild weather-related car calamity? Drop the author a note at
