Dramatic footage of two teens riding non-street-legal gas-powered bikes through an intersection in Salinas, California, has gone viral. It shows the teenagers — reportedly aged 15 and 16 — speeding through a red light at an intersection as oncoming traffic has a green. After what happens next, it’s a miracle everyone made it out alive.
According to Salinas’ news outlet, KSBW, the older teen — neither boy has been identified due to their age — sideswipes a car while moving through the intersection. As the clip shows, the boy’s e-bike then bursts into flames. In that instant, all the traffic stops as the other boy jumps from his bike to assist his friend, who has emerged from the flames on fire. Onlookers leap from their cars to help, as the burning boy and his friend desperately try to put the fire out on the boy’s leg.
