The driver says he ‘blacked out’ (this doesn’t imply he was unconscious, it’s probably just a poor choice of words), then remembers walking around disoriented…he probably just had a lapse in memory from right after wrecking. This is also not suspicious (he did just wreck a truck).

Also, I think he stopped a passing cab (you really think he called a cab service while too disoriented to know what he was doing?). And since this did occur at an interchange, he might have walked quite a distance before hitching the ride. Even if he didn’t get the ride before emergency services arrived at the scene, he might have been missed if he had walked to a different road (he could have walked half a mile in 10 minutes, three quarters in 15).

He “jumped free and escaped the fireball”. That’s not necessarily miraculous, as I’ve read several other tanker accidents resulting in fires where the drive escaped relatively unharmed (the load is behind the cab, and as the truck is moving forward, leaking fuel will have a tendency to spread away from the cab, at least in theory, as well as there being a possibly delay between wrecking and ignition).

“Those agents for some reason allowed “a person with a criminal background to drive a truck carrying more than 8,000 gallons of gasoline through a densely populated area.””

That comment is loaded. If you mean the TSA as “Those agents”, they did not do all of the below…they only granted the driver a security clearance to obtain a HazMat endorsement on a Commercial Driver’s License.

Not all felony convictions are disqualifying for a Hazmat endorsement. Also, according to the link provided in the article, “There is also a five-year waiting period after a convict is released from prison. Since Mosqueda was released in 1998, he appears to have become eligible in 2003.” If he should have been permanently disqualified for his offences, then the TSA DID make a mistake, but the article is too vague on his actual criminal record to jump to that conclusion.

“County officials knew for 12 years that such an accident was possible, and yet for some reason they did nothing to stop it.” That makes no sense, either…if it’s a poorly designed ramp, what are they going to do, rebuild the entire interchange to prevent one possible accident? There are many, many worse junctions and roads, yet nothing is done to correct them. Does that mean there’s a conspiracy in every situation a bad roadway design exists, and isn’t corrected? That’s silly.

The Jesus comment says nothing about his credibility. That’s like wrecking and “Thanking God I’m alive”, then having someone say “You shouldn’t thank God, you wrecked.” The above article is way off on that one.

Diesel fires do not melt steel, they don’t get hot enough to. We all know that. However, heating steel DOES weaken it and reduces it’s useful load. I think 9/11 was a conspiracy, but this particular blog entry doesn’t make much of a case for this wreck (but the question remains, where is the tanker in the pictures? There should be truck remains SOMEWHERE)

Your explanation is a load of crap.