Tanker Truck Crashes Near Pentagon
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A fuel tanker truck crashed near the Pentagon early Wednesday, sparking multiple explosions that sent flames nearly 50 feet in the air and shut down a major highway for several hours overnight. The driver died in the accident, authorities said.
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A truck carrying gas exploded near a restaurant just north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing five people and injuring over a hundred, including many women and children poisoned by gas released in the blast, police said.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Mar. 1--A leaky vehicle has spilled diesel fuel on southbound Highway 99, starting at the Crows Landing Road onramp and leading to a store on Hatch Road.
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A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of fuel toppled onto a car and ignited, killing four people in a fire so hot it melted the tanker on a busy highway ramp near Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 2 -- A U.S. military helicopter crashed Friday morning north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers on board, officials said. It was the fourth fatal helicopter crash in Iraq this year.
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One US soldier was killed and three injured in a traffic accident outside Kuwait City on Sunday, the US military said in a statement.
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BAGHDAD - A gas tanker truck wired with explosives blew up in a west Baghdad neighborhood Friday, killing one person, wounding 19 and lighting up the night sky with a fireball, just hours after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left the capital.
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A tanker carrying chlorine gas exploded Tuesday morning outside a restaurant in the Iraqi town of Taji, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said. At least 105 other people were either injured by the blast or poisoned by the fumes.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two were injured in a traffic accident outside Kuwait City on Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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BAGHDAD -- An American helicopter crashed north of Baghdad yesterday, the fourth one lost in the past two weeks by the US military and private companies. Two American soldiers were killed in the crash, the US military said.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 5--SPARTA, Wis. -- About 500 gallons of gasoline from a fuel tanker truck spilled when a fill pipe leading to an underground tank malfunctioned at the Amish Cheese House in Sparta, and flowed east on Avon Road, according to the Sparta Fire Department.
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The Athos I tanker shown between a dry dock station is listing on the Delaware River near Paulsboro, NJ Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004. On Friday the tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware
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A U.S. soldier was killed in a truck accident north of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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A motorist was killed and another was injured when the Columbia Gulf natural gas pipeline exploded near Interstate Highway 20 in northeast Louisiana on Friday afternoon, said a Louisiana State Police spokeswoman.
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A fatal crash involving a petrol tanker closes part of the M25, causing chaos for many drivers.
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GROVELAND, N.Y. - Part of a highway in the Finger Lakes region was closed for five hours Thursday evening after a tanker truck crashed, spilling 45,000 pounds of slippery liquid chocolate that hardened.  State Police said there were no serious injuries in the crash shortly after 5 p.m.
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HAGATNA, Guam  - A U.S. navy MH60 helicopter crashed into a lake on the Pacific island of Guam, killing one crew member, the military said on Tuesday.