[Lucy Lake]

Truck carrying 35,000 pounds of explosives blows up on Utah highway
By JENNIFER DOBNER
Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY -- A tractor-trailer carrying 35,500 pounds of explosives overturned and exploded on a Utah highway, injuring at least 19 people.

The explosion left a giant crater -- estimated to be 70 feet wide and 30 feet deep -- on U.S. 6 about 60 miles south of Salt Lake City and forced the two-lane highway's closure in both directions.

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/latest/index.php?display=2005/08/11/build/nation/38-truck-explodes.php

[Velveeta]

That's SOME crater!

[Cindy]

Here's another article with photos:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600155076,00.html
Thursday, August 11, 2005
"BLAST CLOSES CANYON
?Truck tips over, explodes; at least 10 people hurt"
By Sara Israelsen, Tad Walch and Laura Hancock
Deseret Morning News
SPANISH FORK CANYON

http://deseretnews.com/photos/2354777.jpg
http://deseretnews.com/photos/0811b1.jpg

[nw_arizona_granny]

Interesting that the reports on the Utah exploding truck do not say much about the fact that the Train tracks were also damaged.

The tracks run along side the hiway.

A terrorist textbook explosion, shut down a hiway and the railroad.