Pickup carying explosives crashes into gas station

Fox News Channel | 01/30/03 | Fox News Channel

[Physicist]

Was the driver a Muslim?

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[HairOfTheDog]

Driver has been arrested.

No fire.

MSNBC broke in with overhead chopper pictures of red smashed pickup

Locally here, channels 5 and 7 (NBC and CBS affiliates) have broken into programming to cover it.

224th and Highway 7

[Dog]

Keep the reports coming from local tv for us..

[OldFriend]

Fox is the only station showing a split screen during Ari's press briefing. Nothing to see but a bashed in small truck. Sheesh, FNC.....enough already. This accident is hardly more important than Ari speaking.

[Route66]

Driver has said there is some type of explosive device and hazardous material in the truck. There are no emergency vehicles near the truck.
Driver was traveling at 100 miles an hour before the accident.

[FreedomPoster]

What a waste of time reporting this nationally. Unless it goes up in a huge ball of fire, this is a non-story to anyone but locals. I couldn't believe FNC broke into Ari's news conference to report this.

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Truck Going Over 100 MPH Crashes Into Gas Station January 30, 2003   By Keith Eldridge   Tools Email This Story Printer-friendly Version   SPANAWAY - Police have closed State Route 7 in Spanaway near 224th Street East due to a potentially explosive situation. Police say a man driving a pickup truck was speeding along State Route 7 at speeds over 100 mph, bumping and colliding with cars along the way as they tried to get out of his way. Police then say the truck then collided with another car near 224th Street East and flipped several times, and then landed sideways up against a line of gas pumps at a nearby Shell Station. The driver did suffer injuries, but their extent is not known. After the crash, the driver told officers there are explosives in the truck. Bomb sniffing dogs are checking it out. Police are not sure what caused the man to be going so fast along the highway. The area will remain closed for a while as police clear the scene and make sure there's no danger to the nearby gasoline. Other Stories: U.S. Helicopter Crashes In Afghanistan The UH-60 Black Hawk had several Americans aboard. Casualties are reported.   Boeing Earnings Are Up The latest quarterly report is positive, on target despite continue slump in airline industry. Your Money with KOMO's Herb Weisbaum.   Tacoma Cleans Up...For Free Environmental clean-up, restoration projects can be done free of charge, if you get your application in now.   Steer Clear Of Those Refund Anticipation Loans Consumer protection advocate says you'll pay triple-digit interest rates to borrow against your own tax refund.   Traffic Stop Leads To Fake ID Bust A major operation shuts down what police say was a double-edged crime ring. Officers say criminals were running a highly sophisticated ID theft ring and a drug operation.

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[FreedomPoster]

You and I are obviously on the same sheet of music here.

[DoughtyOne]

I wonder if this incident is suffering from word of mouth disease. I tell you I have some dynamite in the cab, by the time the story travels two levels it's become an explosive devise and other materials.

[Route66]

The driver was seriously injured but told police about the device as he was being taken away.

[Mo1]

FNC had a live video feed

The front end of the truck is pretty smashed up

[txradioguy]

Police have backed up and established a 500 foot perimeter around the truck. Not good.

[Route66]

Sorry to waste your time.

[areafiftyone]

Wouldn't want their job of taking care of that truck. Here in Westchester that are alot of construction trucks that carry explosives to clear away rock and there are always warning signs on the highway.

[HairOfTheDog]

Like you said, he had been in an injury accident (fled the scene?) Had been running at a high rate of speed and just smashed into the station.

Probably thought he could go down in a blaze of glory that way. (My opinion: Disappointed in his survival, he has made up a story about a bomb.)

Sounds like the guy wants to self-destruct, but he is really incompetent.

[KnutCase]

Spanaway, WA, is adjacent to Fort Lewis....

[DoughtyOne]

That was my take too. Lite industrial dynamite use is rather common. The caps are the real issue. If the dynamite is of recent vintage, it shouldn't be a problem at all, unless the caps were stored in the same spot.