Unusual Monster Truck Incidents

There have been various monster truck accidents throughout the years of monster truck history. While there have been few injuries, there have also been a handful of unusual accidents as well. It should be noted here that none of the incidents listed below were fatal. A Double Crash is also considered unusual, but those are not listed here.

An Escalade
At a speedway show at Virginia Motor Speedway in 2008, Charlie Pauken in An Escalade almost completed the first monster truck Frontflip after losing control in a wheelie, much like Lee O'Donnell would do in VP Racing Fuels' The Mad Scientist in 2017. The truck did a Wheelie off an obstacle, and rode it down the speedway before clipping another set of Crush cars, and hurling forward. It landed on the tailgate just before its Tires, and proceeded to do a second forward roll before coming to a stop on it's wheels.

Backwards Bob
In 2015, Backwards Bob was destroyed in an accidental trailer fire. Nobody was injured in the incident, and the truck's teammate, Grave Digger 28, was salvaged from the wreck. The truck later returned with a spare Body on a backup PEI Chassis. The incident bared similar resemblance to that of FireCore Crusher, as listed below. The backup Chassis used was actually the original Northern Nightmare, which ironically suffered a major engine fire during it's last show.

​Bad News Travels Fast
During an event in Des Moines, IA in 2008 the entire front axle of Bad News Travels Fast separated from the rest of the truck. As driver Bruce Haney started his Freestyle run, he got the truck to perform a small power wheelie, the left front tire then clipped a Car pad which in turn broke the entire front housing off the truck. The crash was nominated for the 2008 crash madness award from Monster Jam.

Barbarian
In a monster truck show in 2018, Barbarian nearly crashed into the stands. As the truck hit a car pad, it landed on its side. As driver Devin Jones tried to save it, the truck Crashed with the right rear tire in the stands only less than one foot away from spectators.

Barbarian Fire
In June 2018, at a speedway show, Barbarian suffered a major fire during it's freestyle. Devin Jones was not wearing fire proof gloves at the time, resulting in massive 2nd degree burns across them. Devin would recover, and return to driving several months later.

Bigfoot
In January 2010, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie Oklahoma, Bigfoot, driven by Rodney Tweedy, was reaching its final moments of freestyle when the truck to a sharp, right-hand turn and tilted onto its two left wheels. The truck did Sidewalls before rolling directly where spectators were sitting (since this was not a Monster Jam event, none of the seats were closed off, as they are in Monster Jam). Just moments before what would have been a collision with the wall itself, the truck then rolled onto its roof (it is possible Tweedy did this on purpose, to prevent the truck from violently colliding with the wall). And one of the tires collided with a hand-rail just inches from where spectators were sitting. No spectators were injured nor was Tweedy. It was reportedly his first time ever rolling over in a monster truck.

Bigfoot #21
During a 2016 event in Miami, OK Larry Swim and Bigfoot 21 suffered a violent Racing crash. In the final round race of the second event Swim was against Devin Jones and Barbarian. They both floored it down the track and Swim just edged out Jones. After the finish, Bigfoot ran head on into a delivery truck stack with dirt on the opposite side. The impact completely destroyed the car and van the truck collided with and the truck ended up springing off the obstacle, twisting on the left front tire and slamming down on it's side. Swim was unharmed but the truck was severely damaged, causing the team to miss freestyle and lose their chance at the weekend points title.

Bear Foot and Carolina Crusher
During a race in West Lebanon, Bear Foot clipped Carolina Crusher after it lost control. Bear Foot struck Carolina crusher hard, which caused it to over balance at high speed,and roll violently after the finish line. It is unknown if Gary Porter (driver of Carolina Crusher) was hurt in the crash.

Bear Foot (McLain)
At one show, the McLain Bear Foot lost it's back axle whilst giving rides. No injuries are known to have been reported.

2001
During the Monster Jam World Finals 2, Blacksmith was racing against Blue Thunder in the semi-final round. Blacksmith won, but the truck overturned and rolled a few times before rolling over and landing in-between two Dumpsters. Driver Pablo Huffaker was uninjured in the crash. Despite attempts to retrieve the truck from where it came to rest, they were unable to, and the truck was left there for the rest of the night. Huffaker would borrow Ragin Steel for freestyle.

2002
During the 2002 San Diego Monster Jam event Black Smith landed upside down in an obstacle. During freestyle, driver Norm Miller lined up for the yet hit delivery van stack. After Miller hit the first car the truck went straight up and rotated backwards while traveling forward. The truck landed upside down, coming to rest inside the delivery truck, a van, and a car.

Black Stallion
During a JM Motorsports event in Honesdale, PA in 2018, Michael Vaters' Black Stallion lost the right front wheel during freestyle. After breaking off the wheel struck the front of one of Vaters haulers and shattered the right front headlight.

The Black Pearl
During round 2 of the Monster Jam World Finals 19 racing bracket, The Black Pearl drifted in Thunder Alley and went up onto the jersey barriers (cement barriers) lining the track. This caused the front tie rod to break and as driver Cole Venard attempted to finish the race he lost control, flipped violently and slammed into the wall. Cole was unharmed, but the impact smashed a railing at the edge of the wall and severely damaged the truck as well as a set of speakers placed on the barrier.

Boogey Van
Boogey Van was involved in a infamous accident in Pontiac 1995, where the truck had crashed full on into the stadium wall, resulting in the impact knocking off both the front right, and rear right tires. It destroyed 14 feet of the stadium wall. Driver Pam Vahle was in the hospital for four days as a result of the impact.

2002
During the second Minneapolis event of 2002, Bounty Hunter lost both rear wheels at the same time. On his third hit, driver Jimmy Creten lined up for the big air jump and came up short, causing the rear hounding to clip the landing pad. The left rear snapped of almost immediately, it also took the entire wheel assembly and housing with it. The right rear also snapped off moments later and it ended up folding up underneath the right side of the rear housing. The truck came to rest with the rear end perfectly balanced on the right rear tire.

2018
At the Montreal Monster Spectacular in Canada 2018, Jimmy Creten and Bounty Hunter made it to the semi-finals of racing against AJ Ganci in Axe. As the trucks began the race, Bounty Hunter's engine exploded, bursting into a large fire. Bounty Hunter, however, did not stop, and attempted to complete the lap, the truck streaming fire from behind. Eventually, the truck was shut down, and the fire extinguished. Axe was shut down as well, probably to allow AJ to check if Jimmy was okay. A few weeks later, this time in Monster Jam in Santa Clara, Bounty Hunter, still under Creten, almost suffered the same incident almost happened during a first round race against Ryan Anderson in Son-uva Digger. This time the motor did not burst into flames, it only produced smoke throughout the whole race. The truck once again, still finished the race even resulting in a close Photo Finish loss.

BroDozer
During the end of its debut freestyle, BroDozer went into an uncontrolled bicycle and struck Lucas Oil Crusader, forcefully pushing it into a nearby staircase. Some of the railings of the staircase were severely bent, and officials can be seen climbing over it to reach the track. There were no injuries or major damages to either of the trucks or crew members. This moment was cut from FELD footage of the event and was only caught on the live stream of the debut on Facebook and audience members.

Brutus
In Pontiac 2002, Brutus had driven out of the pits for freestyle when a tire rolled off two seconds after starting freestyle. The cause to this incident was because bolts hadn't been properly secured back on after a tire change, after the wheel nearly broke off during racing. As a result, the tire merely rolled away.

Burnin' Money & Monster Patrol
During a Monster Truck War show in Chile in 2010, during the intros, Burnin' Money accidentally hit one of Monster Patrol's tires, causing the driver of Monster Patrol to fall and hit the floor (there was no dirt at the show). The driver of Monster Patrol was injured afterwards.

Captain's Curse
Alex Blackwell in Captain's Curse was in the final race at Monster Jam World Finals 10 going up against Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction. As the truck turned the corner in the left lane, the throttle stuck, causing the truck to flip violently up over the wall and into the stands. The section of seats the truck landed in were closed off, so nobody was injured. The crash was censored from the SPEED broadcast of the episode, likely due to controversy regarding two unrelated fatal monster truck incidents earlier that year. However, the crash was uploaded to YouTube and has over 4 million views also the unseen footage of the crash was only showed in Europe. Dumpsters were placed on the edges of the stadium for all subsequent World Finals as a result of the incident. Amazingly enough, it is believed that this is the same chassis that ran as Blacksmith 8 years prior that crashed into the wall protection at World Finals 2. It is unknown if Alex Blackwell was hurt in this incident.

Carolina Crusher and Snake Bite
During a race between Carolina Crusher and Snake Bite, Snake Bite lost control and crashed into Carolina Crusher, literally "crushing" the truck by going right over it. Carolina Crusher's fiberglass body was totally destroyed, but most of the chassis was still intact. No injuries happened from the accident.

Clydesdale, Master of Disaster, and Wild Hair
During a Three lane race between Clydesdale, Master of Disaster, and Wild Hair, a collision happened between Wild Hair and Clydesdale. Wild Hair, while attempting to stop after traveling too fast, swerved into the second lane, hitting Clydesdale, whom was tossed into the air, and into the wall. Nobody was seriously injured.

2010
Crushstation ran over an announcer at a monster truck show in 2010. Thankfully, the announcer survived with only a broken pelvis.

2015/2016 "Lobster Rolls"
Crushstation was involved in two separate incidents that have been dubbed the "Lobster Roll" incidents. One was in 2015 at Detroit, where the truck was doing a wheelie, and clipped a jammer stack. The truck proceeded to flip end over end twice down the track, before it launched into the air, landing on top of the dumpster at the wall of the track, then sliding over, and stopping on top of the Storm Damage monster truck.

The truck would once again be involved in a similar accident, this time running the blue Crushstation body in Hartford Connecticut, The truck drove off of an omni ramp, and clipped the back of the truck. It rolled over, and flipped end over end, until it landed on top of the Instigator monster truck.

Demon, Kimosabe, Showtime, and Weapon 1 Ride Truck
A devastating fire ravaged the 22,000 square foot shop of Trick Trucks, Inc. in Spring City, Pennsylvania on July 16, 1998. The monster trucks Rich Blackburne's Demon, Jack Brady's Kimosabe, Greg Peck's Showtime, and Bill Johnson's Weapon 1 ride truck were completely destroyed, along with shop machinery, parts and supplies. Fortunately no one was in the shop at the time and there were no injuries as a result of this blaze. The fire was caused from a faulty battery from a Power Wheels Bigfoot toy. The Toy Company had announced soon thereafter that the batteries in the trucks had been found to overcharge and combust, ultimately causing a fire. The toy trucks have since been recalled nationwide due to their apparent flaw, and Mattel is still selling the toys without further incident. Explosions were frequent as the shop contained racing fuel, welding, gas and propane tanks. Unexpected explosions came from the sixteen 66" Monster Truck tires that were stored in the shop after the air inside them became hot and expanded until they violently burst.

Desert Storm
Desert Storm was a monster ride truck that was famous for its Rollover on a beachside. The truck slipped on the sand on a dune, and overbalanced, and rolled on its side before sliding down the small slope in the sand. No injuries were reported.

El Perro Loco
in 2013 at an event in Mexico, El Perro Loco wheelied and came dangerously close to running into spectators on the track, this being due to the facts that there was spectators at track level with only a small fence for protection. The event happened less than a couple months prior from the fatal incident with Big Show in the same country.

Kayla Blood
During the final round of a Triple Threat Central racing competition in Newark, NJ El Toro Loco, driven by Kayla Blood, went of the dirt and slid across the thin area of cement next to the track. As she tried to stop the right rear tire went under a portion of the wall and became stuck. The track team had to pull the truck out with a front loader, competition was stopped as event and arena officials surveyed the damage. El Toro Loco was repaired for two-wheel skills and the only real damage to the arena was a damaged temporary safety railing.

​Chuck Werner
During qualifying in Atlanta in 2014 Avenger collided with El Toro Loco. Going into the final turn, Avenger high sided and as driver Jim Koehler attempted to Save the truck, he went in between the turning cars and back towards the one racing jump, where Chuck Werner was finishing his qualifying pass in El Toro Loco. Avenger then drove straight into the left side of El Toro and proceeded to bounce off and flip. Even though both trucks were damaged (El Toro minorly and Avenger severely), both drivers walked away uninjured, El Toro would return for round one of racing and Avenger would return for freestyle.

Lupe Soza
At Monster Jam World Finals 5, Bounty Hunter (driven by Jimmy Creten) became stuck on the large trailer obstacle, where Lupe Soza in El Toro Loco would jump it in freestyle. El Toro Loco, with great speed, jumped the trailer, narrowly avoiding contact with the Bounty Hunter truck, and leaving it in the exact same place after jumping it. El Toro Loco would then crash, causing the back axle and tires to come loose. El Toro Loco would end up in a three-way-tie (the first and so far only time this has happened at the World Finals) along with Madusa, who later knocked down the Bounty Hunter truck from its place.

Rob Knell
In 2004, at the West Coast Monster Truck Nationals in Red Bluff California, Rob Knell was critically injured during a qualifying pass, driving El Toro Loco. During the pass, the converter in his truck caused the transmission to explode, sending debris into fuel lines, and causing a massive explosion. The truck was completely engulfed in a raging fire as Rob Knell tried to get out for minutes. The fire was eventually quenched, and Rob was rescued from the truck, and airlifted to the Hospital. He was in critical condition, suffering 2nd degree burns over his body, a broken elbow, and several broken fingers. He would eventually make a return from 2006 and 2007, but then fully retired from Monster Jam. No footage of the accident survives as there was no known fans that videotaped the event.

Fire core Crusher
FireCore Crusher (Temporary name for Sin City Crusher ) was destroyed in a trailer fire on July 15th, 2013.

Full Metal Jacket
During it's debut show, the Full Metal Jacket monster tank rolled over. This was the only rollover of the tank in it's life, under Jack Willman and then Trevor Stimson's ownerships there was no repeat of the incident.

Grave Digger #2
At a show, Grave Digger 2 nearly drove into the crowd. The truck was stopped after it braked, and bumped into barrier protections.

Grave Digger #3
In 1992, Grave Digger 3 was involved in a serious accident during a race against Taurus at a show in Providence Rhode Island; the truck was being driven that day by driver Lyle Hancock. The truck bounced over a set of crush cars and was thrown forward, then back onto its back two tires, and then forward again, being flung up the side wall, colliding with a camera and nearly hit spectators in the first few rows of seats. Amazingly enough, the camera that it collided with was not destroyed, nor was the camera operator injured. Hancock was also uninjured while two spectators received minor injuries from debris. More humorously, according to Dennis Anderson (owner of Grave Digger) commentating on footage of the crash, another spectator near the crash (who according to Anderson, was the camera operator's assistant) ended up spilling popcorn all over himself.

Grave Digger #9
In 1998, a 28 year old woman's arm was crushed after the Grave Digger 9 truck flipped over on a beach side in Virginia Beach Virginia. A driver at the event claimed that he saw a wave of water wash up on the shoreline, which is what turned the truck over, although no other witnesses saw this. There were 13 riders in total on the truck at the time of the incident and a total of seven were injured. The other six were treated and later released, theses six passengers were aged 2-52. A lawsuit was filed, but it was ultimately dismissed, as the driver was not found to be at fault.

Grave Digger #14 (1)
In 2003 in New Orleans, during freestyle, Dennis Anderson was involved in a very odd incident in which he gassed the truck at a ramp, which launched it into the air. He landed on the front tires, which pushed the truck into an odd Pogo, where it keeled over, and slammed against a barrier, roof first. The dumpster pushed the rollcage down onto Dennis' head and shoulder. He would continue to drive until he broke his arm a few weeks later in a car accident.

Grave Digger #14 (2)
In 2003, at the Monster Jam World Finals 4 practice, Pablo Huffaker drove Grave Digger 14 as a fill in for Dennis Anderson after he was injured as stated above. However, Pablo wasn't the same height as Dennis, and had trouble steering the truck. As a result, the truck crashed through Thunder Alley, and into a tree. After the incident, Pablo used his regular truck, Grave Digger #16 for the rest of the show. He would use 14 for the Encore.

​​Grave Digger #18
During an event at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 2004, Grave Digger 18 got stuck on it's rear tires. During freestyle, Rod Schmidt performed a sky wheelie over a van stack and as he contiuned his wheelie the truck shut off and became stuck in a wheelie position against one of the car stacks. The show ended with the track crew pulling the truck down with a loader. Schmidt would finish in second.

Grave Digger #19
In 2004 in New Orleans during freestyle one of the tires caught fire. At the end of his freestyle Dennis Anderson launched into a high speed cyclone, half-way through the left rear wheel came completely off the truck. It then went off the track where the grease on the inside of the wheel assembly burst into flames from the heat and sparks generated. The tire came to rest with the fire on the underside, extinguishing the fire.

Grave Digger #20
In 2006, during the last Pontiac Silverdome show in Pontiac, Michigan, Grave Digger 20 was involved in a wild wreck. The truck lost control of it's rear steering on the last jump, and it caused Grave Digger to swerve, and tip over. The truck proceeded to a cart wheel, nearly hitting opponent Iron Outlaw, before it launched it's self into a dumpster, and tipping back onto all four wheels, taking the dumpster with it. The truck was fine, as was Dennis, and both made a comeback for Freestyle.

​​​​Grave Digger #23
​During a 2017 More Monster Jam event, Tyler Menninga's Grave Digger 23 partially landed on a arena wall. During freestyle at one of the post World Finals events in Manchester, NH, Menninga hit a set of cars full throttle and lept up onto the arena pad. After landing on the pad the truck launched of the backside of the big air ramp and took a bad bounce, which caused the rear of the truck to rebound into the air. Menninga locked the brakes which caused the truck to pivot on the front end and coming smashing down of the dasher boards (hockey boards) at the end of the arena. The impact crushed a few boards, but it only took a few minutes to clean up the mess and continue the show.

Grave Digger 30th Anniversary Encore
During the encore at the Monster Jam World Finals 13, Son-uva Digger driver Ryan Anderson was injured in the final stunt, where four Grave Digger trucks performed a simultaneous backflip off a railcar. Ryan Anderson's truck did not complete the flip, and landed on the rollcage, the impact which, was enough to break Ryan's back. Ambulances were called, and Ryan was escorted from the track. He eventually made a full recovery.

Grave Digger #30 and Lucas Oil Crusader
During the racing portion of the 2014 MetLife Stadium event there was some controversy surrounding Dennis Anderson. After being defeated by Linsey Weenk and Lucas Oil Crusader in the semi-final round ,Dennis went to drive up onto one of Crusader's front tires, during this Dennis inadvertently hit the throttle too hard causing Grave Diggers tire to fold up Crusaders hood. Weenk was not upset and said it gave him better vision for the finals after the hood was removed.

Grave Digger #32/Hooked
During racing at Indianapolis in 2016, Grave Digger 32 lost control, and jumped into Hooked's lane, whom landed directly on top of Grave Digger. Neither drivers were injured, and the trucks were eventually repaired.

Grave Digger #35
During freestyle in Minneapolis 2018; Show #2, a brake rotor came loose on Grave Digger 35. The bent, glowing hot rotor flew a good 20 feet and landed in a near by crush car catching it on fire. Officials quickly extinguished the fire and no one was injured. Footage of this portion of the freestyle was cut from FELD footage but can be seen on multiple recordings from the audience.

Goldberg
During Monster Jam World Finals 2 racing, Goldberg hit a yellow Turning Pole, which launched into the air, and struck a water pipe, causing water to leak all over the right-side racing lane. While racing initially continued with the water leakage as normal, officials eventually agreed to alter the racing circuit. The trucks would instead start inside the stadium corridor, rather than outside like they usually did. This in turn caused some confusion involving Brian Barthel, driving Wolverine, who initially didn't see the flag waver signal the start of the race (the starting lights were outside the stadium therefore could not be used).

Grave Digger the Legend
At a 2014 Monster Jam show in Tampa, Florida, Grave Digger the Legend set a motor home on fire. During Adam Anderson's freestyle with the truck, he crushed the RV parked at the corner of the track. As his trucks rear wheels ran over the obstacle, the motor home bursted into huge flames. The fire only lasted for a few second before extinguishing itself. Grave Digger the Legend and Adam both were unharmed by the incident and actually won the freestyle portion of the event.

Gunslinger/Brutus
During a race in New Orleans, 2005, Brutus took off with a wheelie, and lost control of steering as the two trucks went over a main table top. Gunslinger was clipped by Brutus, and flipped over. Neither drivers were injured, But Gunslinger could not return for freestyle, resulting in a very angry Scott Hartsock. The crash was a result of Brutus suffering a broken axle when the race started.

Gunslinger
During freestyle at Houston, Texas in 2002, Gunslinger lost control after launching off a freestyle ramp. The truck drifted to the right, before crashing into the stadium wall and flipping over. Scott Hartsock was unharmed, but the stadium was damaged.

Holman's Beast
Holman's Beast was involved in an incident at a show where it lost the rear tire, resulting in the truck losing control and plowing through a fence on the side of the raceway.

Hot Stuff
In 1990, Hot Stuff was involved in a near fatal accident. Driver Todd Blaiser crashed Hot Stuff, upon impact the roof caved in and when the medics arrived Todd had no pulse, but was eventually resuscitated. He is still alive today.

Hurricane Force
At a Monster Jam show at Minneapolis in 2017, the front axle of Hurricane Force completely separated from the rest of the truck after a hard landing.

Ice Cream Man
At a Monster Truck show in Okeechobee in 2018, Ice Cream Man crashed just a few feet from the stands.

Instigator
During the first event of the 2018 Monster Events Fall Bash, Instigator landed in closed seats. The truck twisted after making its first hit in wheelies and the front end landed in a closed area of folding chair seating. The truck was quickly fixed, but the impact damaged several seats and destroyed a fence and two posts.

Jailbreak
Jailbreak was involved in an unusual accident in 2006 when the truck broke a water pipe inside a Georgia arena. The show the incident took place at had a concrete floor without any dirt at all. During a race, the truck jumped the cars, then came down hard after the car pile and struck the floor with enough force to break a water pipe that was underneath the surface of the track. Nobody was injured as the driver got out of the truck very quickly, but the show was delayed for about an hour to make repairs to the broken floor.

Jester
In St. Louis 2017, Jester was involved in a strange race against Monster Energy, where the truck rolled over two times. The first time, Jester was leading against Monster Energy, but he took the turn too tightly, clipping a car, and pulling the truck over on the front left wheel, saving it perfectly. Positioned towards the finish ramp, the truck gassed at it, and clipped the side of the ramp, immediately flipping the truck sideways, where it broke a wheel off, and destroyed the body. Surprisingly, Jester returned for freestyle.

Jetix and Jurassic Attack
In Gothenburg 2008, Jetix clipped Jurassic Attack during intros and tumbled across the floor, landing upright but off the track and on the uncovered running track.

King Krunch
King Krunch was involved in an accident where the truck endo'd over, and landed in such a way that most of the chassis was destroyed. The driver, Scott Stephens was minorly injured in the accident.

King Krunch and Gunslinger
King Krunch was involved in a strange incident that nearly led to a collision, or an impact in the wall, in 1998. During a race against Gunslinger, on the final jump, King Krunch had a steering failure, and a throttle stick. The truck rocketed just behind Gunslinger, and the engine was shut off by the Remote Ignition Interrupter, causing the truck to spin out before it could make contact with the wall.

King Kong
King Kong was racing against Carolina Crusher at a speedway in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. The trucks raced across the crush cars where King Kong, the victor of the race, jumped a concrete barrier, took down a "76" gasoline sign, overturned, and landed upside down between two police cars. Thankfully, nobody was in the police cars and the driver escaped from the truck within 10 seconds and was uninjured. The police cars, however, were completely totaled, and were reportedly brand new police cars as well.

Lil' Eagle
Lil' Eagle was involved in an accident where it's trailer tipped over. Only the truck was injured, as no real humans were injured.

Lucas Oil Crusader
In Arlington Texas 2017, Lucas Oil Crusader almost caused a repeat of the Captain's Curse WF10 crash when the truck experienced a major crash while qualifying alongside Gas Monkey Garage. On the final jump, the truck swerved into the dumpsters and violently wrecked while completely tumbling across one of the dumpsters. The truck would have very likely landed in the stands if it weren't for the dumpsters placed on the sides of the stadium (especially given the low wall height at AT&T stadium). The truck came to rest on all fours near the backflip ramp. Amazingly enough, Linsey Weenk made the top 8 fastest times and made it to the final round where he faced off against Gas Monkey Garage once again. Weenk won the race with no problems but Gas Monkey rolled as they crossed the final jump.

Madusa and Bounty Hunter
At the Monster Jam World Finals 5, Madusa was involved in a strange incident with Bounty Hunter. Earlier in the show during Bounty Hunter's freestyle run, Bounty Hunter sky wheelied up a large obstacle, planting It in the obstacle. The truck was left to conserve time. Many runs later, Madusa came out for her run, where she had a mostly slow run before squaring up at the opposite side of the obstacle. Madusa drove the truck up the back of the obstacle, striking Bounty Hunter. Bounty Hunter was launched off the obstacle, where it landed on its roof, bending and damaging the chassis. Madusa however, balanced at the very top for a moment, before tipping backwards, clipping the obstacle, and landing back on it's tires. The truck drove forward for a moment, but was then shut down, ending her run. Madusa was one of the 3 Freestyle Champions of the event for this run.

Madusa and Ice Cream Man
In Atlanta in 2013 Madusa collided with a parked Ice Cream Man. After Ice Cream Man had a short freestyle run in which the left rear wheel broke off, the truck was placed on the edge of the dirt for the remainder of the competition. A few competitors later Madusa came out and performed a wheelie off the biggest obstacle on the floor. Unfortunately she hit the obstacle partially side ways, and as she rode the wheelie the truck went off the course and straight into Ice Cream Man. Ice Cream Man had severe damage to it's right side and Madusa had damage to the front end.

Major Obsession
Major Obsession is famous for its accident in Tacoma, where the throttle stuck during racing and hit a cement barrier placed about 5 feet from wall, which launched it up the stadium wall.

2013
In 2013 during a show in West Lebanon, Tom Meents and Max-D: Decade of Destruction set a stack of two crush cars on fire. The show was during the trucks 10th Anniversary, so pyrotechnics were placed in parts of the body. At the start of his freestyle Meents set off the pyro, and when the truck hit the cars some of the sparks landed inside the first car and set the interior on fire. Tom hit the flaming cars several more times. After his freestyle, the track crew attempted to extinguish the fire with fire hoses. After the fire could not be extinguished, the cars were moved and covered in dirt. The cars continued to burn after the conclusion of the show and it is unknown how the fire was extinguished. The fire was mostly likely extinguished by officials or allowed to burn out.

2016
In Glendale Arizona, in October of 2016, Jared Eichelberger, driving Max-D, broke off one of the trucks wheels. This was because of a high jump, and hard landing. The wheel rolled off, and hit the Backflip ramp at the end of the track. The wheel however, instead of bouncing off it, rolled up it, and came to a stop, perfectly placed on top of the middle of the ramp.

2009
In 2009, at Indianapolis, Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction squared off against John Seasock in Batman in the finals. A new rule had been added that year, however, stating that the finals race of every show would not have 3 laps as usual, but instead have 5 laps. Tom Meents ended up finishing the first 4 laps before John Seasock, however, he had forgotten the added lap, and began celebrating by doing Donuts and jumping obstacles. Seasock took the opportunity, and finished the 5th lap and ended up winning racing. Tom only found out after the race had concluded that he had actually lost the race, and began to drive off the course, embarrassed, only for his engine to catch fire and stall the truck.

2017
During a freestyle in Indianapolis, on February 11, 2017, Max-D was attempting to pull off a backflip in the middle of it's freestyle run. However, the truck hit the ramp at an odd angle, and ended up rotating incorrectly. This sent the truck flying off to the side, where it landed on top of the arena barriers, which separate the fans from dangerous sections of the arena. Nobody was injured.

2018
In Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field in 2018, Max-D hit the wall in his freestyle performance. The truck hit the wall so hard, that one of the railings on the side of the track was taken out. Some spectators also said that the impact caused the stadium to shake or rumble.

MotorStorm
In 2008, during a media preview for NSW Monster Truck Championships at the Dapto fairgrounds in New South Wales, temporary driver of MotorStorm, Grant Denyer took a high jump off a set of crush cars and took a sharp Nosedive, hitting the ground very suddenly. He suffered a broken back after the accident.

NAPA
During a public, exhibit car crush at a NAPA auto parts store, the NAPA truck crushed a set of cars before plowing into a crowd of people, then the truck rolled onto some train tracks. Although there were injuries, this was a non-fatal event. It is also fortunate that no trains came down the tracks the truck landed on, otherwise, the truck would have been severly damaged.

Nitro Fish
During a race in 2000 at Indianapolis, Nitro Fish took a sudden nose dive after the first ramp, the impact caused driver Steve Macklyn to rupture a disc in his back, the truck coasted to the pit end of the track and medics had to help Macklyn out of the truck and took him to the hospital for testing. He returned to driving a week later, this time with the aid of the "HANS" device. This accident was featured on the monster trucks episode of the history show "Modern Marvels".

2014
At the 2014 World Finals, Northern Nightmare attempted a reverse backflip. The truck landed on it's back, and driver Cam McQueen gassed the truck to save it. By straining the engine, and unknowingly breaking a fuel pump, a huge fire started in Northern Nightmare's cab. Cam was able to escape the truck within seconds, and the truck was extinguished immediately.

2016
During Monster Jam World Finals 17 racing, a brake part from Northern Nightmare broke off the truck and was launched into the stands, striking a fan. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured.

Overkill
Overkill was involved in a trailer fire.

Overkill Evolution
On August 30th 2018, at Paris Ontario, Overkill Evolution was doing freestyle during a competition, when the truck slid dangerously close to a crowd of spectators. Nobody was injured in the incident, but the team would be suspended from the MTRA the following day. Marty Garza resigned from the Board of Directors that same day. Although, he returned to the board a short time later.

Pastrana 199
At the Monster Jam World Finals 9, a second Pastrana 199 running the standard black cab design was involved in a roll-over during testing of the construction of the track. The truck was intended to be used a display piece in the pit party, and was used as a testing truck to test how the consistency of the dirt was, and whether or not the angles of the turns were correct. During testing, the truck ended up high siding, and rolling over. The truck ended up not being used for the pit party due to damage.

Predator Ride Truck
Predator lost a tire while giving rides to passengers. Nobody to knowledge was injured.

Raging Bull
In August 2015, Raging Bull was doing an exhibition performance when one of the tires fell off of the truck from a hard hit, causing it to roll away and crash into a fence where spectators were standing, injuring nine people. Thankfully, nobody was killed.

Red Baron
At a 2011 Monster Spectacular show, Red Baron rolled over and pulled back on all fours by Western Renegade. This happened in the same venue as the incident where Western Renegade got stuck on a SUV stack and was helped off by Red Baron.

Rambo
At a show, Rambo rolled over onto the stands of the arena. Nobody was injured.

Rockstar
At the press conference for the 2012 Monster X Tour show in Gdansk/Sopot, Poland at the Ergo Arena, Bill Payne and Lorna Payne rolled Rockstar whilst trying to crush a car. The original plan was to park the truck with its front tire on top of the crush car similar to what they do in Pit Parties. Security camera footage of the crash ended up in the show's video on the Ergo Arena YouTube channel.

Rockstar and Ms. Bigfoot
During racing at the 2010 Monster Spectacular show at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, Rockstar and Ms. Bigfoot collided.

Safe Auto Minimizer
In Wilkes-Barre 2008, Safe Auto Minimizer had a rough landing and during an save attempt, rolled over onto the protection barriers, nearly coming close to people. No one was injured.

Scooby Doo (Aussie)
During an Easter show in 2017 at the Penrith Showground in Australia, Scooby Doo hit a safety barrier. No one was seriously injured.

Scooby-Doo and Max-D
During a 2018 Jacksonville Triple Threat Event Scooby-Doo crashed into Max-D. While attempting a stoppie/moonwalk during two-wheel skills, Myranda Cozad stayed on the throttle to save the truck. After reaching the edge the track, she locked the brakes and the rear end of the truck slammed down onto the side of Colton Eichelberger's Max-D.

Sheer Insanity and TNT
On January 17, 2017, two teammate trucks from Canada, Sheer Insanity and TNT were destroyed by a fire in their shop. Owners Ged Barcroft and Kathy Wills were not in the shop at the time.

Slingshot and Swamp Thing
At a verva monster truck stunt show exhibition, Slingshot and Swamp Thing both went over the same hill, and broke the same front tie rods in the same place at the same time.

Snake Bite
Snake Bite was involved in a famous crash in 1991 in Union Grove Wisconsin, where the truck, being driven by Colt Cobra and racing against Fred Shafer in Bear Foot during Round 1, jumped the "hydra barriers" (plastic units filled with water: water could even be seen splashing out during the collision) and crashed into a concessions stand shed in a nearby parking lot. The shed was completely destroyed, but thankfully no people were inside it at the time of the crash, so nobody was injured. On the other hand, a 2,000lbs industrial freezer, which was inside the shed, was destroyed in the crash, left out in full view partially crushed by the front tires from the truck's resting position, where the truck was left throughout the rest of the show.

Stinger
At a Monster Jam Show at an arena, Stinger went onto the protective barriers.

Stone Crusher
At the last Pontiac show in Pontiac, Michigan, in 2006, Gary Wiggins in Stone Crusher was involved in an incident during freestyle. The truck, on it's last jump, performed a skywheelie. The truck over-rotated, and ended up landing directly on the tailgate. Wiggins broke his back on landing, and had to be taken out of the truck via medical help, and was put on a stretcher. He eventually made a full recovery.

East Rutherford
During the 2017 event at MetLife Son-Uva Digger crushed a dumpster. While performing a backflip the truck drifted slightly to the side and the rear end of the truck landed on a dumpster. The truck came down with enough force to completely crush one side of a dumpster that was being used for wall protection.

Houston
During a freestyle in Houston during the 2017 season, the truck caught fire after the suspension broke and damaged the fuel system. The fire also set the trucks flag on fire.

Taurus
In 1985, Taurus 1 was involved in a car crash. While the truck was travelling in its hauler on the way to Florida, the rear end of the hauler was hit by a car. The hauler and the truck was destroyed causing the Willman's (owner) to build an all new Taurus 1.

Taz
2005: During Adam Anderson's first event with Taz in Minneapolis in December 2005, he rolled the truck in freestyle before hitting any obstacles.

2009: During racing at World Finals 10 Adam Anderson was injured during a crash. After clipping a barrier at the entrance to Thunder Alley the truck flipped across the Alley and slammed into another cement barrier and a tree. Adam was taken to the hospital for evaluation, Taz was severely damaged, and the bark on the tree was split open but it survived. Chad Tingler freestyled the repaired truck, where he slammed the truck into the corner of a bus while trying to clear the triple jump. A Taz hood was placed against the same tree during the Double Down track walk the following year. The tree is no longer there though, as the trees in Thunder Alley were later cut down and replaced by UNLV.

Team Hot Wheels Firestorm and Monster Energy
During qualifying at Monster Jam World Finals 18, Team Hot Wheels Firestorm caused Monster Energy to roll. As they crossed the finish line Team Hot Wheels landed half on the landing pad and half off which caused the truck to swerve to the right where it clipped a rear tire of the slow moving Monster Energy (who was heading off the track). The collision upset Monster Energy's rear steer which caused the truck to high side. Driver Todd LeDuc was unable to recover and the truck rolled.

The Patriot and Vendetta
During an event in Red Bluff Ca, in October 2018, the two trucks collided in mid air, causing Vendetta to crash and roll. The Patriot was unharmed.

The Rod Ryan Show (Kamikaze)
During intros in the Houston encore show in 2018, Kamikaze (running as The Rod Ryan Show) spun out and hit the wall.

Thrasher Vs. Black Stallion
At a Thunder Nationals show in Durham, New Hampshire at the Whittemore Center during racing, Black Stallion broke it's forward gear, and was due to race against Thrasher. In order to race, and entertain the audience, Michael Vaters raced the truck over the cars in reverse, while Thrasher ran the race normally.

2014
During qualifying at Monster Jam World Finals 15, Titan crashed hard into the wall in the left lane, destroying the chassis. Fortunately, driver Donald Epidendio was not injured in the crash. The chassis was destroyed in the incident, so a new one had to be built. For the World Finals, Donald used a spare Mohawk Warrior chassis as a backup. This crash bares similarity to the infamous crash of Captain's Curse seven years prior (as listed above). The truck had crashed into a dumpster, which likely prevented it from going into the stands like Captain's Curse. The team was able to repair the truck enough for it to continue to run untill the new chassis was completed.

2012
At a Monster Jam show in 2012, Titan caught fire during an arena event. The Driver, Donald Epidendio, was uninjured.

Wayne Smozanek version
During a race in Naples, FL against Bigfoot, Tropical Thunder lost control, cartwheeled, lost both front wheels, and crushed the chain link fence between the track, and audience. Nobody was hurt.

2006
In Pontiac 2006, War Wizard would have a destructive incident during the qualifying portion of the show. Due to the truck swerving on the final jump, War Wizard would jump up, and land on a motocross hill with half of the truck. The impact ended up knocking driver Randy Moore out, and the truck continued driving down the track until it slammed into the wall protection at the end of the course (RII likely aided in helping stop the truck as well). The truck was unable to compete for freestyle, and serious repairs were required for it's next show.

Only about a week later, during the 2006 Atlanta show War Wizard was totaled. On the first hit in freestyle the truck landed at such an awkward angle that nearly every shock was ripped off and the chassis was severely damaged. Randy Moore ended up buying the Total Chaos chassis in order to run the rest of the year.

2018
At a show in 2018, War Wizard was performing a freestyle when RJ Turner got huge air off a set of cars. He couldn't throttle the truck down in time and the truck ending snagging a low hanging electrical wire, and ripped it down, causing a giant spark, and shutting down the lights to the track. Nobody was injured by the live wire.

Western Renegade
At a Monster Spectacular show in Regina in 2012, Western Renegade got stuck on a SUV ramp, and ended up being pulled off by Red Baron using a chain. This is a regular occurrence at that venue, as the promoter only has a small forklift.

Wild Stang
Wild Stang is known for a famous crash which occurred in Cayuga Ontario Canada during Labor Day weekend in 1988. The truck did a car crush, doing a wheelie, then came crashing down and flipped forward, leaving driver Barry Packard (NOTE: some sources say it was owner, Cliff Starbird himself driving) trapped underneath the truck. The incident was similar to that of Paula Harbuck's crash in Bear Foot (which is the first recorded monster truck crash), however, while Harbuck was stuck for only a short time, Packard was stuck for an entire 45 minutes before being finally freed. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured in the crash. In the early days of monster truck competition, crashes were seldom and so trucks were not particularly designed with crashes in mind. Also, with today's monster trucks weighing in at 10,000lbs, old school monster trucks were much heavier than that, with some weighing in as heavy as 13,000lbs, 33% or 1/3 heavier than today's standard. This incident could very well be the main driving force to evolve the design of the monster truck to achieve higher standards of safety.

Wild Thing
At one show, Wild Thing drove into the stands after the throttle got stuck.

​Wrecking Crew
In Atlanta in 2013 Steve Koehler rolled Wrecking Crew in the same place twice. The truck rolled in the same spot in the same turn in both qualifying and round one of racing. Even though the truck had heavy damage it came back for freestyle, where it broke again.

Xtreme Diesel
Xtreme Diesel, at a event at ERX Motor Park in June 2018, snapped off a wheel during freestyle. Due to the location of the event, the wheel began to bounce off the course, and climbed a hill, where it began bouncing across an active motorway. Thankfully, no cars hit the wheel, as the tire bounced close to cars, and off the other side of the road.

​Zombie
During freestyle introductions at Monster Jam World Finals 16 the hair on Bari Musawwir's Zombie caught fire. Embers from the sparklers set over Thunder Alley got caught in the hair, igniting it. Bari moved into the staging area where officials quickly extinguished the flames.

Zombie and VP Racing Fuels' The Mad Scientist
During the freestyle at the 2018 Foxboro Monster Jam Zombie rolled across VP Racing Fuels' The Mad Scientist. The Mad Scientist was sitting on the edge of the track after an early rollover, a few trucks later Zombie hit one of the racing lanes off center and the truck twisted to the side. As Zombie rebounded back upright the rear tires landed on the back of the Mad Scientist, Zombie continued to slide across the body of the Mad Scientist and rolled off the other side. This was also the last hit Colt made during his tenure in Zombie.