http://www.break.com/index/tankblow1.html
bloody nora
Wow!!!!
Mental note.... don't smoke while driving a petrol tanker!
There was another one a few years ago that was viewed from a helicopter and gave a better idea on the size of the bang.
Scarey!
ATB
Simon
I had a shell tanker roll over on its side in front of me on a roundabout near West Malling (about August/September 2001 IIRC).
Very scary. He took too tight a line round the roundabout and hooked an inside wheel up on it. Rolled over on its side not 30 feet from me.
Unfortunately, the ballcock valves that re supposed to vent fume but keep the liquid inside in just such an accident werent working, and it spilled a
few thousand galons of unleaded down the road. And because its petrol, it dissolved the tar based road surface, and the road had to be closed to be
repaired.
Thank god it didnt go up. Me and my brother would have been killed.
Never a dull moment...
Ed.
thats what happens when i light my farts
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Originally posted by ed_crouch
I had a shell tanker roll over on its side in front of me on a roundabout near West Malling (about August/September 2001 IIRC).
Very scary. He took too tight a line round the roundabout and hooked an inside wheel up on it. Rolled over on its side not 30 feet from me. Unfortunately, the ballcock valves that re supposed to vent fume but keep the liquid inside in just such an accident werent working, and it spilled a few thousand galons of unleaded down the road. And because its petrol, it dissolved the tar based road surface, and the road had to be closed to be repaired.
Thank god it didnt go up. Me and my brother would have been killed.
Never a dull moment...
Ed.