Hoppy's Oil Service Inc., truck overturn and fire, State route 128, Braintee, Massachusetts, October 18, 1973.

Author(s)
National Transportation Safety Board NTSB
Year
Abstract

This report describes and analyzes the left side tractor-tandem equalizer beam failure and the subsequent overturn of the tractor-semitrailer (tank) carrying gasoline in 1973. After failure of the equalizer beam, the vehicle veered to the right and struck a guardrail which redirected the truck back into the roadway, where after the semitrailer overturned.

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Library number
B 19300 /80/91/ IRRD 216190
Source

Washington, D.C., National Transportation Safety Board NTSB, Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety, 1974, 41 p., fig.; Highway Accident Report ; NTSB-HAR-74-4

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