VN24 - 28.09.2022 - Schwerte A1 (Germany) - An apparently minor technical defect resulted in a disaster at around 03:15 in the night on the A1 freeway at the Westhofen interchange (A1/A45). According to the driver, one of the right rear tires on the drive axle had caught fire while the tractor was in motion and subsequently burst. The fire spread to the cooling semi-trailer, which contained over 24 tons of beef halves. The entire tractor-trailer burned down completely. Until the morning hours, the fire department had to repeatedly move in to extinguish individual pockets of embers. A total of three salvage companies were then busy clearing up the fire until midday in order to make the highway passable again.
Involved contractors:
Widliczek - widliczek.de/
NVG Horstmann - www.nvgtrucks....
Sälzer mobile crane - autokrane-saelz...
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