Tanker driver 'blames himself for fuel depot blaze'

Investigators in England are looking into claims by a tanker driver that he triggered the Buncefield oil blast by flicking his engine cut-out switch while there was a vapour leak from the plant.

The man’s friend told The Sun: “There was some sort of vapour leakage, like a dense mist. It was ‘heavy’ – forming in the air and dropping to the ground.