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fireworks and diesel fuel

2008 Reader Submission
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Hello:

This is admittedly a story of runners-up, no one was killed, although people were injured from '...the fireworks lit in the cab' of the truck.

I can't help but feel this story will be repeated when the 4 involved in this incident inevtiably take themselves out the gene pool in a more spectacular way.

More confirmation here: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1BzcSCFMcCMv005gVbsfqXMtOYg

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Fireworks in pickup spark near disaster

The Edmonton Journal

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Fireworks fuelled a flaming diesel spill in Grassland on Friday night.

RCMP say four people were driving on Highway 63 in a pickup shortly before midnight while handling fireworks in the cab.

When the fireworks were lit and went off inside the truck, the panicked driver slammed on the gas pedal.

He sent the truck off-road, through a ditch and then through concrete, shearing off a light standard before ramming a semi-trailer, with a full load of diesel and parked at a gas station.

Several thousand litres of fuel spilled onto the pad at Flying J's Truck Stop west of Lac La Biche. The four people in the pickup escaped before the fireworks lit the spilled fuel on fire.

The driver of the diesel truck was just getting to sleep in his cab.

When the pickup truck hit him, the driver ran to the station, unhurt, telling everyone inside to evacuate.

Boyle constable Karl Mandel says the four people in the pickup truck suffered "very minor injuries"-- from the fireworks lit in the cab.

© The Edmonton Journal 2008

Submitted on 03/23/2008

Submitted by: paul childs
Reference: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=551be149-1d2d-46fb-a611-b46429436145&k=5091

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James said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Thankfully, no bystanders were hurt. Lighting fireworks in the cab of a moving vehicle is asking for trouble, and that's exactly what they got!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I think you're right that we'll here from these 4 again when they end up in the running for a full DA. Thanks, Paul!


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