Anyone else see this or follow this story? Seemingly very fishy. I
wrote to msnbc and asked them to follow up. Right.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8900835/ The story is rife with
inconsistencies and leaps of logic. The most glaring is that the driver
was able to get out of the crashed vehicle, help the passenger out, and
warn others, then the truck exploded? How? Fire? What kind of
explosives explode only with the help of fire? Or would the impact have
detonated them? Not according to this story. Of course "officials"
aren't releasing what type of explosives. So... typical, more
questions are raised than answered in this corpo/news minimalist kind
of reporting.
Truck ‘vaporized’ when cargo explodes
35,500 pounds of explosives go off, blast huge crater in Utah
highway
Updated: 6:51 p.m. ET Aug. 10, 2005
SALT
LAKE CITY - A truck carrying 35,500 pounds of explosives crashed and
exploded Wednesday, leaving a huge crater in a Utah highway and
injuring at least four people.
The driver
was able to get out and warn other motorists away before the truck
exploded. But a passenger in the truck cab and other motorists were
rushed to hospitals with injuries, Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce
said.
Two people were in
critical condition
and another was in satisfactory condition at a hospital in Provo, LDS
Hospital spokesman Jess Gomez said.
Another
person was taken by helicopter to University of Utah Hospital,
spokesman Chris Nelson said. That person’s condition wasn’t released.
It
wasn’t immediately clear why the truck crashed, Royce said. He said the
truck was “pretty much vaporized” in the explosion and both lanes of
Highway 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon, about 60 miles south of Salt Lake
City, were gutted by the blast.
Several
small fires in the hills above the accident scene were believed to have
been triggered by flying debris, and nearby rail lines were damaged.
The
rig with a 6-foot trailer from R&R Trucking of Missouri had just
left commercial explosives maker Ensign-Bickford at the mouth of
Spanish Fork Canyon when the accident happened. The truck was headed to
Oklahoma, company officials said.
Officials
wouldn’t say what type of explosives the truck was carrying.
Hal Jaussi, an Ensign-Bickman manager, said the trucking
company “met federal regulations for transporting explosives.”
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