, causing nearly $1 million in damages and shuttering the busy highway ramp.
That TK Transport wasn’t authorized to transport across state lines concerned Bob Mongeluzzi, a Philadelphia lawyer with Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky who has handled transportation-related liability cases, including other trucking cases and the 2015 Amtrak derailment in the city. “Pitch number one would be: The accident wouldn’t have occurred,” if the company had abided by the licensing restriction, Mongeluzzi said.
“There’s been a constant tension between too much regulation and not enough regulation. Sometimes that’s a political issue, sometimes it’s a finance issue,” he said. “It is the carriers themselves, the private companies, that have the obligation to make sure they are in compliance with the rules.” “The problem, and I’ve had this because I’ve handled a multitude of fire cases, [is] they can be incinerated,” Mongeluzzi said.
Officials have released few official details about the crash as investigators have picked through the molten tanker chassis and other scorched remnants left by the conflagration.