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Thought I'd post some old pics that I managed to take of an event that made the national press

Simple story, one petrol tanker leaving what was Oldbury oil terminal collides with a six month old Scania artic that is reversing across his path into a local scrapyard. The tanker driver realises that his tank has been breached so its time to RLF (run like f**k)

Apologies for the poor quality of pics

Jeremy

Fire nearly out in this shot but the smoke still towers over a national grid pylon

That was a new Scania Vee8 143, one careless owner

This was a Seddon Atkinson 400 series

As you can see from this shot there is nothing left of the first tank compartment, the second and third compartments also being breached

oops a daisy

Woo theres some Toasted Trucks. Hope the driver's got out alive?

Yep folks everybody got out alive

The tanker driver was a hero according to the press he ran down the hill with the petrol running down the hill after him and told everybody in a mobile cafe to run
Apparently they all jumped out the back of the cafe and down a grass embankment as the whole lot went up

Bet the breakfast was rather overdone that day

Extra toast with that sir