[Ugly Mongrel]

Truck explosion injures eight, closes Mitchell Highway

[Phil №❶]

56 Tonnes on a public road. Has no one learned anything. 

[Dazzler]

Nasty (bit of an understatement!) 

I feel sorry for the guys who were trying to help...

[Shambles]

Holy shit

So, was the load intended for fertiliser or making IEDs?

[Phil №❶]

My point exactly.    No security or warnings. With a load like that, how do you manage to roll a truck.

[Dazzler]

With a load like that, how do you manage to roll a truck.

Very carefully! 

[Just Rick]

Ammonium Nitrate is highly volatile in certain situations,mixing it with diesel and a source of ignition is the right recipe for a bomb,years ago this is how we used to blow tree stumps,had a few close calls.

Ammonium Nitrate is commonly used in the mining sector,they are a regular sight to see road trains of it going up north,burns extremely well too.

As for rolling a truck,so many factors can be part of this act,fatigue, alcohol(yes there's still drivers out there that do this),Drugs,trying to avoid something or someone,you never know unless your there or there is dash cam evidence.

[Surferdude]

^^^
Quite right Rick.
It was a straight road but as you say, all sorts of factors come into play out there.

[The Gonz]

Holy shit

So, was the load intended for fertiliser or making IEDs?

Sadly, even in AFG, AN was a legitimate fertiliser. However, when we found it in yellow palm oil containers in great numbers in a hidden cache, that wasn't for farming.