[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Car crash on highway: Should we shut down all highways then?

This accident is only the 2nd one to happen in the Gulf since 1979.

[Parley Baer]

....or plane crashes so lets shut down flying for 6 months.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I have to agree with them. For example, there was a terrible crash on the highway. The highway needs to be shut down.

[thecodont]

Car crash on highway: Should we shut down all highways then?

The response to the Caldecott Tunnel Fire (April 7, 1982) in Oakland, California (gasoline tanker overturned in the tunnel, causing a fireball and the deaths of seven people) was not to close the highway tunnel, but to restrict transit of hazardous cargo through the tunnel to certain hours of the day.

A report which came out of this can be found here: http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/8637.pdf.

[CyberAnt]

And .. the majority of spills have been from TANKERS, not from drilling rigs.