While traveling on the Hanoi - Hai Phong highway, a gasoline tanker truck crashed into a truck stopped in front, causing the fire to flare up violently. The fire broke out very strongly, rising tens of meters high, spreading to the outside of the highway guardrail.

At about 9 p.m. last night (2/7) on the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway, the section near the Thong Nhat overpass, in Gia Loc town (Hai Duong province), a large fire suddenly occurred of a gasoline tanker truck. Immediately afterwards, the incident was reported to the authorities.

Initial information from the authorities is that before the incident, the tank truck BKS 24R - 011.xx was circulating on the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway. When going to Km50 600, in Gia Loc district (Hai Duong), the petrol tanker had an accident, colliding with a truck with a control plate 14C - 200.xx. The collision between the 2 vehicles caused the tank truck to overturn, creating a loud explosion and immediately the fire broke out violently.

Witness Nguyen Ngoc Tu driving on the next road said that the fire broke out very strongly, covering the entire lane from Hai Phong to Hanoi, spreading to the trees next to it. "I didn't see the person on the tank truck getting out in time," Mr. Tu said, adding that standing about 50 meters away, he still felt the heat.