Ouachita
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I still have a vivid memory of driving on an interstate highway, having just left New York heading west across the Hudson into New Jersey.We had a terrible accident at our school in the early 80's . Our principal, janitor, and a couple of summer student workers were killed . They had taken up carpet in a classroom and was using gasoline to dissolve and get carpet glue off the concrete floor . An electrical spark when a floor buffer was turned on ignited the fumes . Tragic decision to use the gasoline but who would have thought flipping the switch on an electric motor would have set it off ?
It was six or eight lanes each way, and I watched a compact hatchback type car in the eastbound lanes on fire, flames coming out all the windows. It must have exploded before I noticed it. It was just beginning to get slower than neighboring traffic around it. The windows were "open", and I couldn't see any human like shapes in the vehicle.
That was December 1998. I made a point to watch the news that evening when I stopped at a motel, but never heard anything.
Always wondered if someone was hauling a gas jug or leaky propane bottle.