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California highway interchange collapses after tanker catches fire
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 04 - 2007


A section of freeway that
funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck
overturned and caught fire, authorities said.
The heat from the fire was intense enough to melt part of
the freeway and cause the collapse, but the truck's driver
walked away from the scene with second-degree burns.
No other injuries were reported, which officials said was
only possible because the accident happened so early on a
Sunday morning. The truck driver took a taxi to a nearby
hospital, Officer Trent Cross of the California Highway
Patrol said, according to AP.
The tanker carrying 8,600 gallons (32,555 liters) of
gasoline ignited around 3:45 a.m. after crashing into a
pylon on the interchange, which connects westbound lanes of
Interstate 80 to southbound I-880, about half a mile
(kilometer) from the Bay Bridge's toll plaza.
The fire melted a second interchange from eastbound I-80
to eastbound I-580 located above the first interchange,
causing a 250-yard (228-meter) section of the roadway to
collapse onto the roadway below, according to the highway
patrol.
Witnesses reported flames from the blaze reached up to 200
feet (60 meters) high.
The Bay Bridge consists of two heavily traveled,
double-decked bridges about two miles long straddling San
Francisco Bay. State transportation officials said 280,000
commuters take the bridge into San Francisco each day.
Authorities said the accident on a highway interchange
could take months to repair, and that it would cause the
worst disruption for Bay Area commuters since a 1989
earthquake damaged a section of the Bay Bridge itself.
-- SPA


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