Moraine, OH — There was a large fire that started inside a semi-truck on I-75 this past Thursday afternoon, June 18, that left the truck driver injured. He was later identified as 45-year old Herbert Brown, from Pennsylvania.
The accident happened around 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, near the Edwin Moses entrance onto I-75. A semi-truck and a sedan driven by a Loveland, OH woman were both headed north on I-75 that afternoon when they somehow collided.
The Ohio woman in the car wasn’t badly injured, but the wreck caused Brown’s semi-truck to ignite into flames. He was rescued by some Good Samaritans who drove up on the accident, but still had to be taken to a hospital in critical condition.
The cause of the accident isn’t really clear at this point.
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Commentary:
I’m automatically a little worried anytime I read about a semi-truck catching fire after an accident, especially when it doesn’t appear that this wreck involved any flipping over, hitting trees, etc. To put it simply, trucks shouldn’t catch fire unless something went really, really wrong in the accident. There’s a little truth to the movies you see where trucks and cars exploded after driving off a cliff, because that kind of thing happens in real life whenever there’s a high-speed impact to the engine or the fuel tank is ruptured.
Perhaps there are details here I’m missing, but it seems like this accident wasn’t particularly traumatic, so I’m wondering if there was something wrong with the semi-truck that sparked the fire? This is something where having the truck itself investigated would be hugely beneficial, because you can’t just chalk something like this up to an accident and move on. If something was wrong with the truck or there was an improperly placed fuel tank (often, they’re on the outside of big rig trucks), then it needs to be addressed and the appropriate party needs to be held accountable. At the end of the day, these truckers trust these vehicles with their lives and things like this just shouldn’t happen.
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