Disaster tanker ‘overloaded"
Tortosa (Spain) NZPA-Reuter A road tanker exploded and killed over 200 people; beside a Spanish holiday; campsite last summer, be- , cause it was overloaded with ' liquid gas, an examining magistrate has found. Legal proceedings for! alleged negligence were being taken against the , transport company, Cis-1 temas Reunidas, owners of I the tanker, and the State-! controlled Enpetrol Company, which owned the gas, court officials said. The magistrate’s conclu-* sions were filed before a; Tortosa court last Thursday' and the two companies have been given 30 days to pay a surety of 1200 million* 'pesetas (about $l6 million). , ; The disaster occurred last] [July 11 at the campsite near' iSan Carlos de la Rapita on! (Spain’s Mediterranean coast. ! Pressure rose inside the [tank because it had been; overloaded with liquid pro-; pylene and because of the! high summer temperature. [ The tank, which had no' safety valves, cracked under the pressure and the gas| ignited.
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Press, 18 January 1979, Page 6
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