‘Incident’ with hazardous goods. No panic at all. Because of a ‘slightly’ different approach?

Last Monday we had to go to town to renew my girlfriend's driver's license. That is really only possible by taking the highway.

After a few minutes driving we saw some orange traffic cones on the road to go a little to the right (we drive left in Thailand). There was a large green petrol truck parked on the hard shoulder and we had to get around it a bit. And when we got closer, we saw another fuel truck. I estimate at least about 24,000 liters. Another color and it lay on its side on the shoulder. Powder extinguisher next to it and two men were pumping fuel from the ‘accident’ truck into the green truck. Apparently, something had gone wrong with the steering early in the morning. A concrete high-voltage pole had snapped like a matchstick but the cables had not broken. I stopped past the accident to take a picture and spoke to one of the people who was pumping over. It would take until about midnight, he said, because the overturned truck was full of gasoline.

Police, a short distance away, were busy with daily work. Speed ​​control with a checkpoint. We were allowed to continue.

From my previous job, I missed the traffic infarct, kilometres of traffic jam, a lot of fire brigade, foam, evacuation, a so-called Large-scale Regional Incident Response Procedure, etcetera, in this accident. The companies around it also continued to work. Hardly any attention was paid to this incident. Traffic on the highway just kept going and I was the only momentary spectator.

After we passed the checkpoint, I told my girlfriend about how different things were in my previous work. I have written about it before that, in retrospect, I think that our safety rules and our actions were sometimes completely overdone. Sometimes I even wonder if we really made things and situations more safe or more unsafe.

The next morning the truck was gone. Everything cleared without any problems. 

Which approach is better? This blog is not about that. Just another approach that apparently works too 😉.

Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)

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