Police identify second of 2 fatal crash victims
The fire was out before midnight Tuesday, but the chemical stench of burning fuel still wafted through the air Wednesday afternoon underneath the Metropolitan Expressway at Lajeunesse St.
Police were directing traffic through the area after a crash killed the driver of a diesel truck, reported by news networks to be Gilbert Prince, a 52-year-old resident of Ste-Anne-des-Plaines.
On the elevated westbound expressway, where the accident took place, the smell was even more pungent, as the charred remains of the diesel truck that caught fire Tuesday just before 4 p.m. waited to be towed away.
Only the hubs of the truck remained, and they were sitting sideways underneath what was left of the body of the truck. The truck no longer had any tires, as they had melted away under the intense heat. There was a gaping hole where the driver’s cab should have been, and a tangled mess of metal at the front of the truck. It appeared the intense flames melted away most of the tank that was holding the fuel and the cab in front of it.