Flaming truck rolls into oncoming Perth traffic

06:00 AEDT Tue Jan 31 2012

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A blazing truck rolled into oncoming traffic on a busy Perth highway yesterday when the heat of the fire caused its brakes to fail.

The truck caught alight in a street off the Stirling Highway in the western suburb of Nedlands yesterday before the brakes stopped working and it rolled backwards into the oncoming highway traffic.

Video of the fire shows the truck narrowly missing parked and moving cars before coming to a stop on the other side of the road.

Julia Haniff, one of several people who witnessed the fire, told Nine News she could feel the fire through the window of a nearby building.

"The windows were vibrating, there was black smoke going around the apartment, people inside those apartments actually had to evacuate as well," she said.

The company who owns the truck said the fire was started by an electrical fault in the dashboard, which was set off as the truck was being driven.

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