Truck Carrying Explosives Blows Up in Utah

FOX News/AP ^ | August 10, 2005

[TexasCajun]

I saw the video, made one hell of a hole in what used to be the road.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The tractor-trailer driver was able to get out of his truck and warn other motorists away from the truck before the explosion.

That was fortunate.

[nuconvert]

I'll bet! 35,500 pounds of explosives will do that.

[reagan_fanatic]

Big deal. We don't need explosives here in Illinois. Our roads look like that all the time.

[Graybeard58]

35,000 pounds of explosives and there was enough left of the people to take to the hospital?

[6SJ7]

The place was formerly known as Spanish Fork Flats, but following the explosion it's now called Spanish Fork Canyon.

[ditto h]

Shouldn't you have a good driver transport 35500 lbs. of explosives??

[Sender]

I think you should have armed escorts front and rear for a truckload of explosives these days. What if that one truck were hijacked by terrorists? 35,000 pounds of explosives would save them at least a couple of months of smuggling it across the Mexican border.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Everyone OK in your house? :)

[jocon307]

"We don't need explosives here in Illinois. Our roads look like that all the time."

LOL, NJ too. I practically need an off road vehicle to drive my 7 mile stretch of city streets to work.

[punster]

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Business is booming.

They had a real blast.

They got a real bang out of that.

:-)

[Fierce Allegiance]

There are lots of "black fleet" trucks on the road hauling explosives and serious haz-mat. Any escort would only draw attention and likley increase the chance of bad guys screwing with them.

[T Minus Four]

I'm interested to hear more about this story today. What was the stuff? Where was it going? Isn't there some sort of rule about transporting that many explosives in one batch? How foolish!

[Fierce Allegiance]

NJ highways are way better than NY & PA.

[T Minus Four]

[Sender]

Good point, I didn't think of that.

[taxed2death]

"Shouldn't you have a good driver transport 35500 lbs. of explosives??"

Hmmmm, I'm actually thinking that perhaps these large deliveries of explosives should be escorted... maybe by State police or someone like that. Sheesh... it would be terrible if 17 tons of explosives "went missing"!!!!!!!

[Dust in the Wind]

BOOM

[nuconvert]

WOW!