Highway to Hazmat hell

[drivesafe]

Don't know if they can fix the truck :oops2:

Hazmat Highway to Hell with High Pressure Gas Cylinders (No Music) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=FG1LGKieTxY)

[S3ute]

Beyond the truck driver, for whom sympathy would be hard to find, you would have to wonder what happened to the driver of the small silver car that was parked next to it.

[AnD3rew]

Beyond the truck driver, for whom sympathy would be hard to find, you would have to wonder what happened to the driver of the small silver car that was parked next to it.


I can have sympathy for the truck driver and his family, it was hard to see what happened in front of him, but stuff can happen real fast and we all make mistakes.

I am wondering if the driver of the small silver car was the guy on the phone moving away in the second part of the video. All I can say is I would have been running away much faster than he was.

[S3ute]

I can have sympathy for the truck driver and his family, it was hard to see what happened in front of him, but stuff can happen real fast and we all make mistakes.

Hello again.

You are quite right about accidents occurring fast and so on, and to be fair no-one generally celebrates someone else's demise (although I have reserved that right for the odd dictator).

However, my reading of the clip that prompted the comment was that the truck was going much faster than the rest of the traffic. Although the white bus did change lanes which ultimately set up the prang, if the truck driver was paying attention and driving to the flow there was plenty of time to slow down and avoid the catastrophic end.

Whatever, I am glad I wasn't there.

Cheers,

[Basil135]

And one of the bigger issues, apart from the cylinders exploding of course, is on major freeways like this, there is all to often a lack of water available.

With the large amount of cylinders involved, you need LOTS and LOTS of water available to cool them down.

Then, of course, you have to be able to get close enough to get the water onto them. With the way they were cooking off, I would have been using the monitor on the top of the appliance from the other side of the road. Mind you, that was grid-locked, and understandably so.

I have seen a video of a rail car LPG tanker bleve, and the main tank ended up several kms away. Think of a rocket laying on its side, and then firing... :eek: