Cooking gas cylinders from toppled six-wheeler cause injury, traffic chaos in Udon Thani

By The Nation

 

 

Dozens of cooking-gas cylinders spilled out of an overturned six-wheel truck in the middle of Mitraparp Highway in Tambon Nong Phai, in Udon Thani’s Mueang district, on Monday, prompting the police to seal off the scene as a safety precaution, and hence causing severe traffic jams.

 

 

The fully loaded truck lost control while heading towards the Muang Udon Thani Museum, resulting in a crash that injured two people on board, said Pol Lt-Colonel Danchai Mulpong of Noen Sung precinct.

 

 

The danger of a gas leakage caused police officers seal off a section of the road from traffic for hours, so that the scene could first be cleared.

 

A car that was passing by at the time of the accident was also damaged by a fallen cooking-gas cylinder, police said.

 

 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353659

 

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anyone wanna bet that truck was overloaded  ? something called center-of-gravity was disregarded

When ill the police start checking on big trucks on the flye for OVERLOADING...they are wrecking/distroying the roads litterly AND how many of these guys knows how to drive safe,not to many.They resurface one year next year it's time to resurface again much me think due to the fact of trucks is overloaded..

potentially a explosive story.

4 hours ago, YetAnother said:

anyone wanna bet that truck was overloaded  ? something called center-of-gravity was disregarded

Not necessarily.

Although the images are somewhat blurry, when zooming in  you should see a trace of the plastic seals of filled cylinders. Looks like (almost) empty cylinders were transported.

Almost: never sure how much remains in the cylinders.

So still dangerous if the valve breaks off.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The fully loaded truck lost control..... 

Why don't they put a driver behind the wheel; at least there would be somebody to blame, instead of the poor, hardworking truck!

Just another normal day in paradise...

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

potentially a explosive story.

Better than just a flash in the pan I guess.