KINGSTON, OK : Witness describes inferno after fuel tanker crash on Thursday, September 14, 2017

A Bonham man lost his life Thursday evening after the tanker he was driving overturned and more than 8,000 gallons of fuel exploded.

Truck driver Glen Smith of Bonham was killed in the fiery crash that shut down a stretch of Highway 70 east of Kingston for hours.

"You're just helpless," said Dennis Eakle, the owner of nearby Bob's Lake Country Motel. "All I was able to do was grab a garden hose and wet the grass down out here so we didn't catch fire."

Eakle said he could feel the heat from those flames hundreds of feet away.

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Witness describes inferno after fuel tanker crash