by Rynski on Jul.27, 2009, under crash, fire, life
Fiery tractor-trailer crash: Shari Wood Linder, 50
Shari Wood Linder, 50, was killed July 24 when the semi she was driving overturned and caught fire near Picacho Peak on the side of Interstate 10, according to a news release from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The semi had been hauling two trailers full of automotive and cleaning products, which included explosive aerosol cans.
Wood Linder was pronounced dead at the scene while her co-driver and husband Ricky Keith Linder, 53, survived with injuries that were not life threatening.
The Linders were from Quinlan, Texas, and had been driving as a team for about 10 years. They were driving the truck, owned by Saia Trucking, from Blythe, Calif., to El Paso and overturned on the side of the eastbound I-10 lanes around 9 a.m. for an unknown reason. The investigation continues.
“The fire was so intense it completely engulfed the semi-truck and came in contact with overhead power lines,” the release said.
Lanes were closed for several hours following the crash and residents were evacuated from a 1-mile radius surrounding the fire. At one point there was a 6-mile backup in the eastbound lanes.
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July 27th, 2009 on 8:38 am
Very sad. Seems like this sort of thing has been happening quite a bit lately.
August 1st, 2009 on 7:10 pm
PLEASE GOOGLE “DEFORMABLE KINGPIN” that explains a simple to understand solution to forbid a tractor to follow into destruction during rollover events. The concept is the same as to why you have fuses or circuit breakers in electric systems in your home, office or car — a failsafe — to prevent further destruction. This innovation is a simple modification of a component, the trailers kingpin, whose design has been a standard for over 70 years, which can be made to deform and not allow an extremely stable tractor to follow to destruction when the trailer, that is the dominant controlling force, is in IMMINENT peril for rollover. The NHTSA & FMCSA continue to turn their backs and ignore their past funded research conclusions, as the trucking industry evolves greater unstable tractor trailers on our highways that have a primary attribute for increasing payload capacity. These catastrophes will continue to occur in thousands of accidents of this type each year as they have in the past, and continue to cause infrastructure damage that will harm and kill many hundreds of tractor occupants. These combination vehicles are incendiary bombs when carrying flammable material in tankers, and the flash point for these fires starts with the tractor’s involvement. Donald J. Kaleta