15 Freeway to Las Vegas remains closed due to fiery crash involving truck carrying lithium batteries

Lauren Pozen provides the latest in the ongoing closure on the northbound I-15 Freeway heading towards Las Vegas, which has been closed for hours due to a fiery crash involving a truck carrying lithium ion batteries.

[purses-puppies-politics]

Why dont they call in national guard and set up 15 southbound to be one lane and one lane going north?? People are going to DIE from the heat. You cannot just close the highway like this leaving people stranded. Total incompetence

[randygraham]

What caused the truck to roll over? Going too fast with hazardous cargo? I've driven this stretch repeatedly -- very hard to have an accident unless you're driving too fast or fall asleep.

[TheeLynnChase]

in order to put out a fire from lithium batteries on fire is you have to submerge them. How will they submerge a semi truck? This is how bad going all electric will be.

[xfile]

Why don't they just turn the south bound lane into a one lane north one lane south.

[hewhohasnoidentity]

75, 000 gross weight includies truck, trailer, container and the "3 commercial grade lithium ion batteries " inside the container. This would have a high center of gravity. The area is known for very aggressive truck drivers passing each other repeatedly. The truck rolled over in a curve.

It was caused by aggressive driving, speeding and trying to force the vehicle to do what it can't do. The truck would have been hard to turn for the curves and lane changes while maintaining speed. He needed to slow down to regain control but he wasn't interested in slowing. The truck didn't have the available power to do what he wanted so all of the energy collected and pushed him over. He literally chose to roll over.

[Frankaa-ygwc]

Didn't they tell us lithium batteries are green? Saving the environment? All that BS and now a huge fire causing horrible backup!

[MrYfrank]

How the hell did they get that shipping container inside of a tanker truck?
They must have beat the snot out of it and squished it and that damaged the batteries.

[royh]

The same batteries that are in EV cars that they are forcing us to accept.

[Renee-kkhf]

E v s a bad idea. 😉 we will look back and realize how stupid each day of this is.

[joedevitto]

Best to just fly save time and parking fees and gas.. so much faster even if it cost a little more its worth it... way too hot in this heat and now look what happens just never know...

[yosimitesam]

That's bs. That ain't no reason to back everyone up.

[nomenclature]

Tanker trucks do not carry self contained shipping container industrial batteries.

[spirituallogic]

Currently stuck spending the night in Barstow because of this. Was just trying to get home to Vegas from a family trip in Southern California, so this is one hell of a disaster!

[miket]

Always carry emergency supplies in your car. Even if it's just a few water bottles and Granola bars

[SancLunatic]

Those aren't hazardous materials. Those are clean green environmentally friendly materiels. What do you mean? 😮

[rembo]

but lithium ion batteries are the answer for clean energy, we are being told!!!

[FYRFOX]

…and people with EVs are driving with a HUGE LITHIUM BATTERY UNDERNEATH THEM…

[Netstarr]

Ridiculous, Chp should have rerouted the lanes

[garybowler]

How do you roll a truck on that section of I-15 ? Negligent operation, he had to be going way too fast for an overweight hazardous materials load.

[michaeldoe]

EV mandates. Joe Biden's/Gavin Newsom's America. California YOU voted for this...