--- description: The home, in Lansing, MI., had already been evacuated and no one was hurt title: Watch a House Explode After a Car Hits Its Gas Meter image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5fd8b8bebc146f5/69885ea7428a9edab7cce958/screen-shot-2015-08-11-at-2-29-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Accident](/tag/accident/) ## Accident Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This House Explode After a Car Crashes Into Its Gas Meter by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2015 8:19 AM CUT  by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2015 8:19 AM CUT A road accident in Lansing, MI. quickly turned into something far more grievous last week, when one of the cars involved collided with the gas meter of nearby house and triggered a massive explosion. The owners of the house were evacuated and no one was hurt in the explosion, the UPI news agency [reported](http://www.upi.com/Odd%5FNews/2015/08/10/Michigan-house-explodes-after-car-hits-gas-meter/2721439236053/?spt=sec&or=on "undefined"). A video of the explosion, shared by Lansing firefighter William Pawluk, who took it using a dashboard camera, shows the car stopped at the edge of the house before it suddenly collapses following a massive fireball. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3992116/house-explosion-car-michigan-lansing-gas-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3992116/house-explosion-car-michigan-lansing-gas-video/"},"headline":"Watch This House Explode After a Car Crashes Into Its Gas Meter","datePublished":"2015-08-11T08:19:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:04:02.995Z","description":"Luckily, the home had already been evacuated and no one was hurt","url":"https://time.com/3992116/house-explosion-car-michigan-lansing-gas-video/","keywords":["Accident","house","Michigan","U.S.","fire","explosion","Collapse","car"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5fd8b8bebc146f5/69885ea7428a9edab7cce958/screen-shot-2015-08-11-at-2-29-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5fd8b8bebc146f5/69885ea7428a9edab7cce958/screen-shot-2015-08-11-at-2-29-11-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-08-11 at 2.29.11 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/accident/","name":"Accident"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3992116/house-explosion-car-michigan-lansing-gas-video/","name":"Watch This House Explode After a Car Crashes Into Its Gas Meter"}}]}] ```