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Hold up. That might be the direct cause, but one driver fucking up shouldn't cause the interstate to collapse.
It was carrying 8500 gallons of gasoline. The hatch to the tank hadn't been secured properly and the tanker exploded when it crashed. Then the fire burned for over an hour.
Now that's one hell of a detail for OP to leave out of the summary lol
Well that'll leave a mark. Wonder how soon the conspiracy theorists will give it the 9/11 treatment.
Gasoline can't melt concrete.
it was a driver of a tanker
This was my thought as well. Like, yea, this blaze caused the collapse and the blaze was the result of a tanker truck, but it feels more like shifting blame. If a fire from one accident can cause the bridge to collapse then you need to take more precautions. Stronger bridges, ristrictions of what can go under the bridge, better response times for firefighters, maybe some type of fire suppression system (if nothing else it could help even if not eliminate a fire completely), etc.
Prevention and rapid response measures would make it prohibitively expensive to manage. In this case the only injury was the driver. There was no way to prevent that once the crash was imminent. Truckers are already regulated to manage fatigue. The collapse might have actually been beneficial as they'd still likely need to completely remove and replace that section anyways. This way the rebuilding doesn't need to account for dismantling a damaged overpass still in the air.
That there was only 1 injury and it was the driver, is luck. It's easy to look back and think it wasn't that bad. You have knowledge of the outcome.
From Cinci to Philly, my heart goes out to you. Having a minor highway down really sucked ass.
Talk to me about 275, 75 and 74, let it sing mon frère
Looking forward to the WTYP breakdown of what happened here, seems like a huge clusterfuck of events that had to line up for this
I really can't trust anything the government says anymore.
Wow! No Shit!