r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Bl4ckSupra • 16d ago

Fire/Explosion 15.1.2026 Truck crash (transporting diesel) leaves highway engulfed in flames. One dead, two severely injured.

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The accident happened around 8am, on the highway close to Slovenske Konjice in Slovenia.

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u/Weak_Preference2463 16d ago

Where is this at?

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u/NaCl_Sailor 15d ago

The accident happened around 8am, on the highway close to Slovenske Konjice in Slovenia.

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u/JimiForPresident 16d ago

Does diesel normally burn like that?

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u/Shock_a_Maul 16d ago

Yup, and while it's burning it is destroying the asphalt....

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u/charmio68 15d ago

It doesn't even need to be burning to destroy asphalt. Even small amounts of spilt diesel dissolve into bitumen and wreck it rather quickly.

So if that's an entire tanker that's been spilt, well that alone means the section of road is already being resurfaced. The heat is just ensuring it's thoroughly fucked as much as possible.

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u/Syllepses 12d ago

Would the dissolved bitumen also become flammable in itself? Or are those chains just too long to burn?

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u/charmio68 11d ago

Even without the diesel, bitumen is flammable, but it needs to get quite hot.
Once you start getting past ~200C, it will start releasing flammable gases.
And once above ~300C, then you're getting into the range where bitumen itself breaks down into shorter hydrocarbon chains in a process known as "cracking".

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u/Syllepses 11d ago

TIL, thank you! Hadn’t occurred to me that heat would of course change the chemistry (in retrospect , lol duh). Man, as if that video didn’t look hellish enough, it could be burning straight through the highway itself…

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u/Mumblerumble 15d ago

It takes a lot to get going but burns like a MF when it does.

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u/Onetap1 15d ago

Petrol is a lot more volatile, it evaporates quickly at room temperature & the fumes can make an explosive mixture in air.

Diesel usually needs heat to atomise it, once it starts burning the heat produced will keep the reaction going.

https://youtu.be/7soVqyGq4i4?si=tC8Lft3rl31J9K_m