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Old 07-23-2011, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 310Pilot View Post
You will probably need to crate the items for shipping, but I foresee a larger problem, the gas tank undoubtedly contains gasoline fumes which cannot be completely purged, making it a very effective bomb. It will probably have to be shipped as ha-mat with special handling. Not sure how to maintain a chain of evidence, though.
These items are burned up. The metal is twisted beyond belief. The heat shield looks more like wadded up tin foil. The gas tank is burned so bad, it would not hold anything. Any and all vapors went up in flames for about a half hour, just about the same as the driver did.

It is the job of the expert in such to say exactly what went wrong to cause such a fire. I can give speeds, angles and the like but I am not an expert in metals.
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