Gasoline Truck Atomize Destroys I-95 Overpass in Connecticut

A gas tanker crashed and exploded on Would possibly simply 2, destroying an I-95 overpass in Norwalk, Conn.

A fuel truck crashed and exploded on Would possibly simply 2, destroying an I-95 overpass in Norwalk, Conn.

Photo courtesy Norwalk, Conn. Police Dept.

A fuel truck smash and explosion on Interstate-95 in Norwalk, Conn., destroyed an overpass bridge early in the morning of Would possibly simply 2. No fatalities passed off in the incident, which tousled web page traffic throughout the day. The affected allotment of the motorway will doubtless dwell closed except Would possibly simply 6 as crews dismantle the overpass’s charred remains, primarily primarily based on Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont.

“No matter the dramatic scene, happily each person eager is stable,” Lamont posted on X, the safe situation formerly ceaselessly known as Twitter.

A firefighter used to be taken to Norwalk Properly being facility with a leg fracture, primarily primarily based on officials, following a smash eerily associated to an accident that killed a truck driver and collapsed an overpass on I-95 approach Philadelphia almost a three hundred and sixty five days ago.

The “chain-response smash” at 5:30 a.m. on Would possibly simply 2 came about after a automobile swerved in entrance of a tractor-trailer as a tanker carrying 8,500 gallons of petroleum touring on I-95 approached the Fairfield Avenue overpass, primarily primarily based on native officials.

Extinguished in approximately an hour, the fireplace very much damaged gas, cell phone and cable utility traces running below the overpass, primarily primarily based on media reports.

“We had every engine in town here,” Norwalk Hearth Dept. Deputy Chief Stephen Shay told journalists. “As rapidly as they came we bought foam flowing. The fireplace went out immediate. It right took a whereas to safe foam on the fireplace.”

A dangerous materials investigation is underway.

Crews will initiate dismantling the overpass bridge as rapidly as doable in hopes of reopening this allotment of I-95, which in most cases carries 160,000 vehicles per day, primarily primarily based on the governor’s location of job.

The bridge is less than 10 years dilapidated, an legitimate from the Connecticut Dept. of Transportation said at a news convention.

“It ignited straight below the bridge structure,” the legitimate said. “The seal did initiate to overheat and deform. Sadly it be now not ready to be safely reopened in either direction below that bridge.”