A fuel tanker flipped on the Long Island Expressway on Saturday morning, resulting in an explosion that killed the driver, melted the roadway and caused major delays for travelers in both directions.
The tanker was trying to avoid a Dodge Neon traveling east between Exits 48 and 49 near the Suffolk-Nassau County line around 8 a.m., said Chief Michael Sharkey of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office. It appeared that the “Neon had car trouble and was slowing down,” Chief Sharkey said. In trying to maneuver out of the way, the tanker driver “lost control of his vehicle, flipped it.”
The driver, Mujahid Shah, 57, of Brooklyn, “never got out of the truck,” Chief Sharkey said. He had picked up 12,000 gallons of fuel in Brooklyn that morning to take to Yaphank, N.Y., and it ignited.
The flames shot high into the air, said Steven Richter, a general manager at Ski Stop on the expressway’s service road near the accident in Plainview, N.Y.
The westbound lanes of the highway did not reopen until about 6 p.m., and the eastbound lanes would remain closed overnight, according to the Department of Transportation.
ACCIDENT!? MAYBE.
BUT I'VE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF THIS AVENUE OF ATTACK FOR YEARS.
Mujahid Shah? I wonder where he was going with that fuel? If he was a terrorist, I doubt that a highway would be his target. He was probably on the way to something bigger, if in fact he had anything planned. Maybe "the system worked?" ...as in, we dodged another one, no thanks to us, but to an "act of G-d?"
ReplyDeletei suspect the cars that cut him off were mossad
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ReplyDeleteLOL, If only they were that good!
THEY WERE CUTTING HIM OFF TO PULL HIM OVEREWHEN HE EITHER DELIB CRASHED IT A/O SET THE IGNITER OFF.
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The lady driving the car was at fault. Just look at where the tanker hit it! She cut him off and he tried to avoid her and lost his life trying. It makes me sick and I am a woman. These drivers go through intense driving training and have to maintain strict medical records and are constantly alert. She pulled out and a driver in control of a tanker holding over 8000 gallons of gas can only do so much. Moreover, drivers holding a tanker endorsement have in the business a HAZMAT endorsement and some have gone through a homeland security background check which get a TWIX card to operate such machinery. These men are extremely reliable and know more than any driver of a 4 wheeler the caution required to operate such a vehicle. This poor man paid the ultimate price because a stupid idiot decided to cut him off to be in time for her appointment. “my car was breaking down” really….The car was a new Dodge Neon..If it was breaking down there was no fuel in the tank…but investigators will find that out and the fact the damage was to the rear, the engine was intact! Was she driving under 40 MPH? All this I hope will be investigated since the driver of the tanker is no longer with us. May he rest in peace. I hope she tells the truth instead of making up a story that makes no sense. You can’t fool everyone!
ReplyDeleteRWR INC: U R WITH MOSSAD, OBVIOUSLY.
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