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I-40 Temporarily Closed After An Accident And Fire Involving Two Semi-Trucks
Interstate-40 was closed Sunday afternoon after an accident involving two semi-trucks started a brush fire east of Flagstaff. DPS officials say the accident happened just after 4 p.m. on eastbound I-40 about five miles east of Twin Arrows Casino. One of the semis was parked in the emergency lane and was side-swiped by another commercial vehicle, which caught on fire and spilled its contents of produce onto the interstate. The fire spread, so both east and westbound lanes were closed while crews put out the fire. There were injuries involved in the collision. There’s no word on what caused the accident. The incident is under investigation.
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Jessica Stow
Truckers need to slow their a$$ down, always on I40.
Exactly.
Someone on their phone
Semi driver here.
I saw the immediate aftermath of this and drove westward through the smoke as the produce truck was burning. This is an illustration of what I call the law of multiplied obstacles: as a moving object approaches a bottleneck the likelihood of more objects moving toward the same point increases. If I had to guess I would say the sideswiping vehicle had another driver directly beside it as it came into contact with the stopped vehicle.