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Tanker truck fire shuts down LaPorte Freeway

Posted on Mar 25, 2009

The LaPorte Freeway had to be shut down for hours after a pickup truck slammed into a parked tractor trailer. The 18-wheeler was stopped on the side of the road when it was hit, and the collision caused the fuel tank on the cab to catch fire.

The tanker truck was carrying a cargo of the chemical acetone when it was hit, but it was the truck cab’s fuel tank that caught fire in the crash, not the tank of acetone. Two people were sent to the hospital with minor injuries after the accident – the driver of the pickup truck and a person standing near the tractor trailer when it was hit.

The morning commute on the LaPorte Freeway was much longer than usual for many motorists because of the crash. The acetone cargo had to be transferred to another 18-wheeler, which took a substantial amount of time. However, the Pasadena Police Department stated that the accident “could have been much more severe.”