Diesel Spill Rimutakas 15/12/09. 0830

[Quasi]

Cover most of the hill!!

Take care out there riders

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10615591

[Quasi]

Bump.........

[Foxzee]

Oh no....another one...this is happening far to often of late

[StoneY]

And these contractors PROMISED to keep the road clean, but then again could have been any truck, not neccesarilly the roadworkers

I used to drive rigs over the Taka's 3-4 times a week

A spill like this one sounds like a ruptured fuel tank, or a Tanker with a valve left open (should NEVER happen but it does)

[ManDownUnder]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...615591&ref=rss

A diesel spill covered most of the Rimutaka Hill Road north of Wellington this morning.

The diesel spill ran from half way up the Featherston side of the hill, over the summit and down towards Upper Hutt on State Highway 2, said Inspector Paul Jermy of police central communications.

It appeared a truck had spilled the diesel some time around 7am. It had caused a few cars to slip and slide but none had gone over the side at this stage, he said.

Contractors were gritting the road and motorists were advised to drive carefully.

Meanwhile, about 7.45am a truck jack-knifed near Oak Ave, Paremata, driving towards Porirua, on SH58.

There were no initial reports of injury but it would be a significant blockage and motorists should avoid the area, Mr Jermy said.
- NZPA

[riffer]

A spill like this one sounds like a ruptured fuel tank, or a Tanker with a valve left open (should NEVER happen but it does)

and where is the option for fining an operator who does this?

[yungatart]

and where is the option for fining an operator who does this?

Exactly!
Hit them in the pocket and make it hurt...when it starts costing them, they will clean up their act.

[ManDownUnder]

and where is the option for fining an operator who does this?

www.acc.co.nz

They have an ambulance ready to depart for the bottom of the cliff...

[StoneY]

and where is the option for fining an operator who does this?

Dude seriously IF the Police identify the operator who owns the vehicle that spilt the fuel (unless a witness *555'd its unlikely) they hit REAL hard

MINIMUM 10k fine for large fuel spills + the cost of the road crew grit mission + driver gets suspended if its a driver fault eg loose valve on tanker (same as log book infringment,but under DG rules associated to the endorsement)

The issue is catching the operator

I saw a trucks fuel tank totally collapse in front of me on SH1/2 at Ngauranga about 7 years ago, I was in truck behind him, RT'd my base, they rang his, he stopped within 200m

That 200m diesel trail cost his firm 10k, and the driver 28 days as a storeman, even though they did the utmost to minimise the disaster the second it was made known, and it was a genuine engineering failure not carelessness

[BMWST?]

muy only off on the road from ahem 72 till 1990 wa son a deisel spillon the takas...it was a Runciman bus going the other way...three of four of us came off that day,and there were several witnesses to THAT BUS spilling deisel but you had to have a witness who saw the deisel come out of that bus then actually see someone crash in it...2 plus 2 wasnt good enough in that situation.Murphies dictates that it was my almost brand new K 100 RS that i came off....