Destroyed In Seconds — Season 1, Episode 38: Episode 38
Documentary, Reality • 22 min • 2 seasons, 76 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
Brooklyn, NY – A news helicopter blows a tail rotor and crashes on the roof. Byron, IL – A drag race wheelie competition. Jason Schubert slips and barrel rolls three and a half times down the track. Västerås, Sweden – During an off-road motorcycle race, Nicholas Hermansson's bike veers across the track and T-bones racer Andre Nilsson. Honshu, Japan 2004 – Unusually heavy rain cause multiple soil erosions. Bathurst, Australia - Len Cave miscalculates the "Caltex Chase" turn and barrel rolls his race car 10 times. Brooklyn Park, MN – A car crashes into a beauty store. A boy playing by himself is nearly hit. No one is hurt. Miami, OK – Trigger Gumm, attempting to set a new world record for a jump, lands hard and wipes out, breaking five vertebrate. Anaheim, CA – Three college students are on a baseball tour to visit 12 different stadiums. They find a Cessna 175 out of fuel preparing to make an emergency landing.
About Destroyed In Seconds
Destroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that airs on Discovery Channel. Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, etc. The nature of the show closely resembles Real TV. The show uses real video of real events, and commentary explaining the destruction portrayed. Most videos have stock sound effects added. Some of the events seen resulted in fatalities, and all of the events have property damage. It is currently on hiatus.