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  A road tanker is an 'enclosed space', often cleaned and filled with an inert gas when empty. Even if no inert gas is used, shortage of oxygen inside the tank can quickly lead to problems (the things are liquid and airtight when the access points are closed). Equally, the unit may not have been cleaned and may have contained residue and/or fumes which could swiftly engender unconciousness and death. However, as nobody died, I suspect that they were merely running out of oxygen rather than being affected by fumes, particles or an inert gas (all of which would almost certainly caused several, if not all, of them to die in transit).
  
  Just in - it was a tanker unit carrying non-hazardous bulk powders, so most likely distress caused by starting to run out of breathable air.

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