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Tanker Accident

Post #1 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:43 pm

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

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) :shock:

Apologies for the poor quality of pics :oops:

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Post #2 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:44 pm

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


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Post #3 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:47 pm

That was a new Scania Vee8 143, one careless owner :lol:


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Post #4 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:56 pm

This was a Seddon Atkinson 400 series :shock:


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Post #5 by Jeremy Rowland » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:01 am

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


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Re: Tanker Accident

Post #6 by nick lamb » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:39 pm

oops a daisy


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Re: Tanker Accident

Post #7 by Ross » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:11 pm

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


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Re: Tanker Accident

Post #8 by Jeremy Rowland » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:57 pm

Yep folks everybody got out alive :o

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 :shock:

Bet the breakfast was rather overdone that day :lol:

Extra toast with that sir :lol:


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