A gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, creating such intense heat that a stretch of highway melted and collapsed.
Flames shot 200 feet in the air, but the truck’s driver walked away from the scene with second-degree burns.
I predict with some confidence that when they say ‘walked away’ they mean ‘ran like the dickens’.
Cross posted to Space For Commerce.
Must be the second time in history that fire melted steel…
(BTW, one of the busiest stretches of highway around, just east of the Bay Bridge, and nobody but the driver hurt. Good deal.)
Comment by B. Durbin — 20070501 @ 0653
All that and many many thousands more people can take BART to work in the morning and enjoy the wonders of public transportation.
But I kid. I’ve ridden BART and while I don’t generally enjoy being packed like cattle for an hour with strangers it’s not that bad.
Comment by Brian Dunbar — 20070501 @ 0937