It was a fatal truck accident that ended in a ball of fire. The tractor-trailer that caught in fire was carrying a load of batteries Sunday evening around 7:00pm.
The truck was being driven by a male. He was heading north on a Virginia state highway when he decided to speed up and pass some cars using the left lane.
Virginia State Police reported that the truck driver was in the left lane as he passed two vehicles.
Once he completed passing the two vehicles, he signaled that he was going to move back into the right lane. But instead, he went off the shoulder of the road and hit the guardrail. This caused his truck to go down an embankment where the truck caught on fire.
The truck’s fire spread to the trailer where the pile of batteries was located. Some of the batteries actually exploded from the exposure to the intense heat.
The truck driver was killed in the accident. He’s been described as a man in his 60’s but his name had not been released pending contact with his family.
The accident caused a back up for miles as the north lane of the highway was closed down. A hazardous material crew had to come out to clean up the accident site and all the remnants of the batteries.
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