Monday Accident and Lessons Learned: “Freak Car Accident Shuts Down Major US Oil Pipeline Until Thursday”

DOW JONES NEWSWIRE reported lat week that a “Freak Car Accident Shuts Down Major US Oil Pipeline Until Thursday.”

Why would a car accident impact a pipeline?

Perhaps a good Safeguard Analysis could have suggested additional safeguards for the above ground portion of the pipeline that, according to the story, was not “near a major highway” and was “surrounded by a chain-link fence.”