WALKER COUNTY, Ala. — Alabama authorities say a truck driver is dead after their tanker exploded following an accident on April 16 along Interstate 22 in Walker County.
Images of the scene, which show massive plumes of black smoke rising hundreds of feet into the air, circulated across the world on Tuesday.
There are few details about what caused the blast or if other vehicles were involved.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said that a semi-truck hauling a tanker trailer overturned and that a “large oil fire” had ignited.
Officials couldn’t confirm what type of liquid the truck was hauling.
Westbound lanes of I-22 remain closed.
Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and raised in East Texas, John Worthen returned to his home state to attend college in 1998 and decided to make his life in The Natural State. Worthen is a 20-year veteran of the journalism industry and has covered just about every topic there is. He has a passion for writing and telling stories. He has worked as a beat reporter and bureau chief for a statewide newspaper and as managing editor of a regional newspaper in Arkansas. Additionally, Worthen has been a prolific freelance journalist for two decades, and has been published in several travel magazines and on travel websites.
“Alabama authorities say a truck driver is dead after their tanker”. … as a 20 yr veteran of journalism, you need to learn the proper use of pronouns. YOU need to ask if the driver was a man or woman. IF it is a man, it should read HIS tanker— either way, it’s NEVER a plural pronoun after you’ve just written “a truck driver is dead.”
He/ she really isn’t the sad matter here. THE POINT here is that someone lost a loved one . I’m a 20 year ladydriver and my hear is aching right now just wondering the last thoughts of the driver, (his/her family must be really going thru so much sorrow right now. I just started driving propane and I’m a praying God fearing woman but I trust that God will still be with me anywhere and anywhere at all times and my fellow Conrad. RIP DRIVER. GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY WITH STRENGTH.