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Glendale -
Late on Saturday night in Glendale, California a car crashed into a gas tanker. The accident caused a fiery inferno which took 150 firefighters to extinguish.
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Cotonou -
Armed pirates raided an idling tanker on Wednesday as it was attempting to transfer its crude oil cargo, about 62 nautical miles from the Benin capital of Cotonou, and hijacked 23 sailors in waters seeing a marked increase in piracy.
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Veterinarian Rona Williams was on her way to work when a tanker truck clipped her Renault Clio, trapping the car under the truck's bumper as it traveled down the highway at 60mph.
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A chemical tanker and its 28 North Korean crew member have been freed by Somali pirates. The tanker was hijacked in November north of the Seychelles.
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The Indianapolis highways I-465 and I-69 have been closed in both directions after a tanker exploded on a ramp on the city's north side. Flames and heavy smoke are reported at the scene.
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On Monday a Japanese oil tanker was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. As a result hundreds og gallons of fuel was emptied into the sea.
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A tanker carrying home heating oil ran aground in an inlet on the Atlantic coast of western Long Island early yesterday.
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Tanker Headlines
A strike by fuel tanker drivers is averted after drivers vote to accept a peace deal, the Unite union announces.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey reflects on the effects of strike action by petrol tanker drivers.
A fuel tanker truck caught fire on a freeway in California, sending flames and plumes of smoke into the air.
The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.
The fuel tanker drivers' dispute could end within days if the Unite union accepts a proposed deal which it will discuss next week.
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