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Post by onlymark on Jun 6, 2010 5:20:08 GMT
I'd just like to emphasis a point on safety. This is my local garage where I tend to fill up every week. If you do smoke, it is probably best not to light up at the petrol station. Especially, as in this case, if you are the tanker driver whilst filling the tanks -        There were no injuries. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 6, 2010 5:23:53 GMT
Jeez-looweez ~~ were you nearby when it went up in flames?
I wonder what sparked the fire. Pretty much, you can smoke a cigarette when pumping diesel, which surely is what that tanker truck used. 'Course, the guy next to him might have been pumping gasoline.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 6, 2010 5:30:24 GMT
I wasn't near it, no. I drove past the next morning.
It's a little difficult to see, but as you've spotted, there are two trucks. The one nearest the camera was a victim, the one buried closer to the building was the offender. It is that one that was carrying petrol and was filling up the fuel station tanks, not his own tank.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2010 5:56:04 GMT
Ouch. Time to change petrol stations.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 6, 2010 6:35:36 GMT
I do have a Plan B fortunately.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 6, 2010 10:24:08 GMT
More to the point - was anyone hurt?
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 6, 2010 10:47:02 GMT
ooops! Not good. Is it an independant petrol station or one belonging to a large chain?
I seem to remember - from my driving days, signs everywhere on petrol stations forbidding anyone to smoke... but I guess these haven't yet made it to Cairo.
And anyway I remember seeing many people casually smoking right by the signs...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2010 10:57:33 GMT
In France you are not even supposed to use your mobile phone when pumping petrol.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 6, 2010 11:08:41 GMT
true! my memory is patchy as to the theory around it, but it involves heat and particles and waves.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 6, 2010 11:48:41 GMT
It's part of a chain, actually a government owned one. No one was hurt, I did say at the end of the photos but it kind off got lost there.
We do have lots of signs, all the same you have in Europe, no smoking, switch off engine, no mobiles etc. But they are thought of as voluntary here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2010 14:22:39 GMT
Even though I use my mobile very little and don't really care, I really want some proof some day that mobile phones have caused a petrol station to explode, made an airliner crash or screwed up the hospital equipment. I kind of think that those rules date from when a mobile phone was the size of a brick.
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