eagerbeaver:
Why on earth would somebody film a vehicle fire? Let alone put it on scrotebook/scrotetube.Hopefully the drivers are both okay. I wonder if the prick who filmed it would have enjoyed the spectacle as much if it was his family member who was potentially burning to death?
What a sad society we are becoming.
+1
It really doesn’t surprise me that 2 artics collided on a nearly empty motorway, the way some of those heros drive, its only a matter of time before this sort of thing happens, and yes I see it on my night trunk through the road works.
Yes I know your not supposed to come on here slating the driving ability of the crap in this industry, but if people stop defending them!
And who was brave enough to find out it was ok to do 55mph+ through the average cameras? a question ive been meaning to ask for a while.
I saw it going northbound. Proper messy. I got a video driving past it on my GoPro.
truckman020:
Actrosman:
Is it just me or does anyone else think that artics seem to be catching fire a lot more these days after a collision?I think the same,when I took my haz chem p3 I was told diesel would not catch fire as quickly as petrol,so how are these vehicles catching fire so quickly,could possibly be diesel leaking onto a hot exhaust maybe
Possibly common rail injection systems which work on the idea of maintaining full flow and pressure in the lines and just use electronic control of the injectors to regulate how much of it goes into the engine or returns to the tank.The same risk has applied in the case of similar car type system for years.IE other than an inertia switch which will only trip in the event of a severe stop.Any split or break in the line results in full fuel flow being continuously pumped into any source of ignition like broken/shorting electrical leads.When what’s needed is a pressure sensing fuel shut off valve and fuel pump shut off which trips in the event of any sudden un expected loss of pressure in the line. 
As for diesel v petrol given the type of heat/ignition sources in question like an electrical fire etc there’s effectively no difference.
Prob very little to do with fuel more to do with the amount of electrics in trucks these days with wires getting crimped in an accident and batteries squeezed into any little gap they can find not to mention some of the tat we wire into them too