Video: Busy US Highway Collapses After Oil Tanker Burst Into Flames In Philadelphia
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The collapse took out four traffic lanes along an elevated section of the heavily traveled motorway, though no injuries were immediately reported.
A fire caused part of a busy US highway overpass to collapse in Philadelphia early Sunday, authorities said, as reports attributed the accident to an oil tanker that burst into flames under the bridge. BREAKING: Fuel tanker explodes on Philadelphia highway, causing an entire overpass to collapse. pic.twitter.com/iwRVgxJZ41 VIDEO/BREAKING: SkyFOX over the section of northbound I-95 that has collapsed in Philadelphia near the Cottman Ave exit. A tanker truck in the underpass beneath 95 caused the North lanes above to collapse & South have buckled down too. pic.twitter.com/0aIqreRlzI
The collapse took out four traffic lanes along an elevated section of the heavily traveled motorway, though no injuries were immediately reported.
Images broadcast on television showed flames and billowing smoke coming from the crumbled section of Interstate 95 in the northeastern city's Tacony neighborhood, with parts of the elevated roadway having fallen onto the lanes below.
