Truck Explosion leaves 30 ft crater
What do you get when a truck with 35,000 lbs of explosives overturns? How about a 30-foot
crater, 19 people injured, and one vaporized truck? This accident occurred a week ago, Friday and it has taken a week
for this road in Utah to be rebuilt. So how could this happen? Witnesses say that the driver appeared to lose control
after taking a curve on the highway at high speed. Authorities suspect that a fire ignited after the accident and
caused the explosion. Luckily, no one was killed. You can bet the truck driver won't be transporting hazardous material
any more.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BF 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
If it rolled and blew up it must have been a Toyota Truck.
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Hank 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/prog25/toyota.shtml
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JustJase 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Now that's a pothole that would "F" up your alignment!
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Doogs 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Now...this is a situation where you would want to consider bailing from your vehicle.
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BF 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Damn, Steve, clearly you can't take a joke. Nice post for the Blog though, I am sure that the kids who come visit the site will be impressed with your choice of words.
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Doogs 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Pretty sure McDonald's employees don't get internet access at work.
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BF 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Perhaps the reason Steve is so familiar with the McDonald's bathrooms is the fact that he has a potty mouth.
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Shinkaze 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
...but Hollywood tells me that even the slightest of fender benders causes the gas tank to explode, surely this happens all the time. ;-)
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Dave 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
This happened just two days ago, not seven. The Salt Lake Tribune has pretty good coverage:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2935183
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Bryan William Jones 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
Actually, this explosion only happened two days ago and they already have the road back up and functioning along with the rail tracks that were damaged next to the road.
All that said, it was a truly impressive explosion that was heard several canyons away and was reminiscent of a daisy cutter bomb in magnitude. "What was that?" my friend said. "Something big".
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KingTroll 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
BF you got owned by post #2.
Good game, keep practicing.
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Scott Eaton 10:45PM (12/18/2005)
I just watched the Top Gear episode with the famous Toyota truck - this episode had them placing it on top of a high-rise building before implosion sent it falling down with all the rubble. Still worked, basically (although it had been previously abused in many other ways.)
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