I hate to sound kinda tin foil about this, but something smells fishy. I’ll hold my tongue until I find out how this tanker managed to explode, and who the driver is. Of course, I could just be paranoid.
If it was terrorism, why do it on Sunday morning when there will be little or no immediate casulties? Why blow up the pipeline in rural Illinois, rather than one of the many populated areas the pipeline runs through?
...According to Cross, the driver was not intoxicated but was traveling at an "unsafe speed," lost control and overturned.The driver walked away from the crash and took a taxi from a nearby gas station to Kaiser hospital in Oakland, where he is being treated for second-degree burns to his hands, arms and face, according to Cross...