They usually don’t tell you exactly what happened right away bc they have to investigate for half a day first.

@@jasonscott6174 Rodger that 🇺🇸👌

That’s good.

Yes. A suspicious miracle for the time being.

No, there have been none REPORTED. . . yet.

Tanker driver died. Still under the debris.

@@oscarwinner2034 they said no one was injured

@@samrobison6421 driver burnt to a crisp..

They tell ppl to take off the mask , then comes the smoke.

@@oscarwinner2034 yeah that’s what I thought. I mean how he said no one was injured and like yeah the summer truck driver died right seems odd or not mentioning this.

In an on going investigation they cannot release the name or whereabouts. It's our constitutional right to be proven guilty or innocent.

They haven't been able to reach the truck yet.

If someone was in a truck that generated that much damage it is almost certain the trucker no longer walks this earth.

@@lijohnyoutube101 You missed the point. If it was intentional the truck driver is very much alive. Plenty of time to escape after parking the car underneath the highway. Fire could be started with delay fuse out remotely

@@Rich-yj4ub They could mention the driver’s whereabouts without naming him/her or assigning responsibility. EXTREMELY suspicious they didn’t even say “the name. location and condition of the truck driver are unknown”. Pretty standard to say something like that under these circumstances.

It'll be at least a few months before they can have it constructed

the heart and soul? you need to get out more....lol

Its just a highway…. Why do you talk about an inanimate object like that??? Like… 🗿🗿🗿

​@@davidwright873 he/she said its the heart and soul because it goes from Maine down to Florida Which is the main highway for the east coast....so relax fella!

They probably didn't even realize it was dipping until they ran over it.

They closed down the road BEFORE it collapsed. No luck involved

looks like gasoline can melt steel beams

They literally light stolen cars on fire underneath these overpasses all the time just within a couple blocks of there, all the overpasses are probably all week

and how easily terrorists could attack our dams and water supply. No telling how many terrorists have entered our country in the last 2 1/2 years. In 2022, Border Patrol apprehended 98 people on the terrorist list. No telling how many were not apprehended.

That's what emergency declarations are for I think. But since it just happened they need to clean the area to begin with, then who knows how long construction will take. Even working quickly I'm pretty sure concrete has a curing time or some such.

@@EricLing64 Concrete obtains 72 percent of its strength after 3 days. The remaining 28 percent comes in thirty days. Not sure if it has to be at full strength to allow for traffic. If I would hazard a guess, I’d say sixty days from today. That would include demolition of the fallen section, engineers assessment, rebuilding plan, competitive bidding, contract acceptance, site prep, and construction to ribbon cutting. 😁

Just a few months back Hurricane Ian completely destroyed the only bridge to Captiva and Sanibel Islands. They said it would take months but it only took about a week to reopen to traffic. Although less trafficked that also included repair the underwater supports and rebuilding the part of the island that washed away. When the Governor declares a state of emergency permitting goes out the window - it’s the criminal investigation and post repair inspections that could cause delays.

Unless that's where it flipped onto its side or became otherwise immobile.

😄

Nobody is saying it was parked. It may very well have exploded while in motion.

According to a news report and the governors office, “Chaos ensued when a tanker truck caught fire when reportedly traveling under an overpass, causing the elevated structure to collapse. Authorities believe the truck could have been carrying hundreds of gallons of gasoline” Sounds like he stopped it under the bridge. Hence maybe it was parked.

@@themackguyverchannel7713 "traveling" ≠ "parked"

Hmm no driver info means he wasn’t there. Makes you wonder why?

Sometimes, if someone is in a vehicle that's on fire, especially one carrying 5000 gallons of gasoline, they may decide to get out of and away from that burning vehicle.

@Brian Oliver I heard a report this morning that the truck was parked there and no driver around have not heard since anything about the driver or the company was this stolen and intentionally set on fire

He probably got out of the truck that was pulling the flaming tanker... 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

@Studio23 Media well duh you are a rocket scientist

It may have been a deliberate terrorist act. There go your odds.

@@joevarga5982 Oh stop. 🙄

@@debrasnipes7431 that's what the investigation is for. you want to dismiss the idea? you do that. that's like seeing the plane crash into the first tower and saying "oh stop🙄". see what happened after that? declared a terrorist attack.

The off ramp loops under the highway. It’s downhill and a curve. The tanker flipped and caught fire while going under the underpass.

Feels like something happened that they aren't saying. They probably need more time to concoct a believable narrative.

mianus 🤭

​@@miket4234 ☠️

Remember when that one fell in Minneapolis in 09 or something. Never heard the word gussets until then.

Yes I remember that as well. Was in my honeymoon

Interesting isn’t it.

​@@quenoselecruzenadie what? It's I-95 you clown

Fortunately it's in an area where interstate traffic can find alternate routes.

@@JMC-ul1sw He’s implying that it was intentionally done by terrorists to cause economic harm. Not a comment about traffic patterns

@@drdrew3 the economic harm would be minimal given almost travel through the interstate as mentioned does not go straight through Philly on 95, but around it. Just traveled past in from Mass to NC and the NJTurnpike, Delaware bridge take you past it through Maryland before reconnecting to i95 proper

Happened in Birmingham alabama about 15 years ago...

shut up.

Rare things do occasionally happen. It dont mean any sort of conspiracy. Tens of thousands of fuel tankers driving the roads in the US, occasionally they catch fire. Sometimes they do while under an overpass. Like this time. Or like in 2004 in Birmingham Alabama.

@@SpicyEngineer Sure, it is possible but the odds against it are staggering.

@@SpicyEngineer The driver surely could have hit the gas and driven the truck another 200 feet out from under the overpass before the fire really got going.

And Birmingham Alabama in 2004

Glad to hear traffic is no longer a nightmare in Atlanta. ;)

@@gingercat7925 ROFL I should have put a disclaimer * "more than usual". It's still horrible.

I drive into Philly a lot for work. Traffic was a nightmare before this. I’m dreading what it’s going to be like now.

I think I jinxed Atlanta traffic with my reply yesterday... 15 separate fender benders on I75/85 N this morning tied up morning traffic for 4 HRS. 😲 So glad I WFH and just got to watch the insanity from my windows (while having coffee). ☕️

​@@RaymondHng That's interesting that you have an actual timeline, an estimate of how long it might possibly take for them to fix it. If all goes well, hopefully here in Pennsylvania we can get it fixed in a similar amount of time. Fortunately, I don't have to drive that road, although I am in PA and I'm curious about it. It set off my red flags of "Is this really possible, or did something else happen that they're not telling us?" Hopefully, if they do fix it quickly, they will do a good job at it, instead of a hasty, shoddy job. It would be helpful if the government of PA would find out how the situation was handled over there in San Francisco.

@@RaymondHng I also don't know if they have alternative transit methods, like BART, that would work as well in Philadelphia, but then, I don't live there and don't know much about it.

@@eagledove9 SEPTA announced additional trains being added to the Trenton line on Monday: 6:40 AM and 8:03 AM from Trenton, 8:25 from Holmesburg junction station, 3:05 PM from suburban station to Holmesburg junction station, 4:30 PM and 5:20 PM to Trenton.

@@eagledove9 The collapsed connecting ramp in Oakland is one-way traffic. The collapsed I-95 replacement is bi-directional traffic, therefore there are more lanes to replace.

Well if there’s a place youre going to crash rather than just drive off the road, it would be in a tunnel

@@Christoph5782 Depends.

@@peterk8909 Kinda, but also keep in mind these types of large trucks are involved in around 375k incidents a year in the US

@@Christoph5782 How many close down an interstate highway?

@@peterk8909 I think the question your wanting is collapse, as wrecks close down highways all of the time, just for hours instead of months. But statistically something like this was always going to occur, and will likely occur again in the future

No, definitely an explosion

The explosion collapsed the supports. It didn't blow up the road itself.

@@jasonscott6174 pretty as in very much. Obviously. My slang is older than yours.

I think there were explosions after from the sewers . I believe someone talked about manhole covers going airborne too. Don't quote that. Maybe, it got to gaslines.

@@suedefringe replace sewer lines in addition to rebuilding the road

Yeah kinda makes me wonder though... I live in Atlanta and the rumor was that they cause of the fire here was a coverup for something.

Philly and state officials are saying months. There's no urgency. They're Democrats so they can take their time and focus more on BLM, Antifa and indicting Trump every other day for something stupid.

At 3:42 am on Sunday, April 29, 2007, a tank truck carrying 8,600 U.S. gallons of unleaded gasoline overturned on the connector from Interstate 80 west (from Berkeley) to Interstate 880 south. The intense heat from the subsequent fuel spill and fire weakened the steel structure of the roadway above, which served as the connecting ramp from Interstate 80 east (from San Francisco) to Interstate 580 east (to Oakland), collapsing approximately 168 feet of it onto the lower connector. The collapse of this bridge cut off the return route from San Francisco for many East Bay commuters (primarily those whose destinations are Walnut Creek and southeastern Oakland). To help ease the expected traffic snarl, Caltrans set up temporary detours within the days following the incident, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) added additional capacity to lines serving areas that had been impacted by the incident, and on Monday April 30, all public transportation in the Bay Area was free, with the estimated cost of $2.5 million paid out of state funds. While there was some serious congestion on the detour routes, the expected traffic jams and long delays did not fully materialize. This was possibly due to commuters switching to alternate transit options, indicated by BART posting record ridership numbers during that time. Caltrans spokespersons estimated immediately after the accident that it would take weeks to clear the debris from the scene and months to rebuild the affected sections. However, due to the urgency to reopen such a vital highway link the project was expedited, and most demolition work and debris removal was completed by the Tuesday following the accident. On May 7, 2007, the I-880 connector reopened at 4:30 am to traffic. A contractor with a proven track record of rebuilding damaged freeways well ahead of schedule, C. C. Myers, Inc., submitted a winning bid of $876,075 to repair the damage to the I-580 connector. The bid was estimated to cover only one-third of the cost of the work, but the firm counted on making up the shortfall with an incentive of $200,000 per day if the work was completed before June 27, 2007. On the evening of Thursday, May 24, the I-580 connector re-opened, just before the busy Memorial Day weekend. The deadline to finish the project was beaten by over a month, with the contractor earning a $5 million bonus for early completion. The entire reconstruction project was completed only 26 days after the original accident. A state projection concluded that the connector collapse had cost $90 million, based on a $6 million per day economic impact estimate. This includes a $491,000 loss in toll revenue for the Oakland Bay Bridge.

SMH don’t start this

D@mn sure does !!!

A damaged road is not the same as a mother and her children dead in Ukraine.

@@silencedogood7297 let that country handle it. this country is falling apart!

@@silencedogood7297 pick any city. Where this is not happening in the USA.. Any!

It was just maintained..looool..not much you can do about an exploding tanker..lol..stop gaslighting

@Roger McMillan hard to pay for 400 million people when you are constantly giving money to other countries and spending taxpayer funds on ridiculous projects.

Why the high fives? Kind of insensitive ,don't you think?

what he's probably not that important.

The driver probably did this deliberately.

@@NiRvAnA6890 those are prayer hands lol

@@NiRvAnA6890 first day on the internets?

They never mention drivers names, that is sus guess it's not that important.

I had seen a post on Twitter regarding a threat to "bridges" after the indictments were released, so this makes me wonder if it is an accident.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@@debbiebrister3528 A congressman from Louisiana called for the bridges to be taken care of.

This is how stupid conspiracy theories start. Wait for the investigation before forming a hypothesis.

Already weakened infrastructure is more likely to collapse when you add heat exhaustion onto the structural integrity

Medium-size disasters happen pretty often, as do thoughts that the current time period is unusually important.

Congressman Clay Higgins called fascists out to take the bridges prior to the trump's court appearance, in Florida. Maybe the stupid right wingers got confused where.

Why would we assume that?

@@arjaygee because when you are hauling hazardous material you can not go under tunnels or critical infrastructure.

hes goners

He probably was crushed to death and his body burnt to a crisp. Very sad. You can pray all you want.

they never said someone got hurt.

​​@@davea6314 cool Dave. You're a cool cat for sure!

It's philly... Even if he lives he'll get robbed at gun point.

Exactly … it’s all a big show, a distraction and/or a test for something larger

Yeah earlier it was "collapsed due to lack of maintenance!!" I thought I was the only one

the gas lines subsequently exploded... Did you watch like 5 seconds and then comment?

@@mequavis I've watched other angles. It burns and then collapses. People are literally driving over it while it's burning.

@@dustinandrews3223 u must have missed the part where the manholes were acting like furnaces and sucking fire down into them, and something in the sewers blew up, they don't know what yet

@@mequavis Methane?

@@arjaygee sounds legit :)

Never been there, I take it?

@arjaygee Oh, I've been to the city of, so called, brothely love. Now in fairness I've seen worse, but I've never seen a Kensington anywhere in all the places I've been on earth. Third world countries don't look that bad.

We do? I don't think we know.

He’s still there. I know.

​@@oscarwinner2034 How do you know so much about this?

@@MunicipalityCity working on this accident now.

They found a body.

I think I heard another report they haven't been able to get to the truck driver because of the flames.

He's not talking.

The truck driver Runaway before the explosion

it was on fire first so maybe he did get out before the explosion

​@@THEYCANTSTOPME no, we live in the movies bro. You know his seatbelt got stuck, his door was jammed and he forgot how to open the door.

@@ComradeTomatoTurtle oh and don't forget all the time that passed while he was watching the clearly escapable flames catch up to his driver seat while trying to do nothing but accept an escapable defeat smh.

Last I heard, they hadn't yet been able to clear a path to the tanker. I expect the driver didn't make it.

Still trying to get to truck as I type.

This is the USA - we blow any extra money on useless wars instead of infrastructure. 🙁

The difference between communists and free people.

@@jasonscott6174 Europe may have better trains but we have better cars. The USA is the greatest country in the world. People are willing to walk thousands of miles through some of the most dangerous countries in the world just to have a chance to try to hop our borders. We don't really care how they do things in Europe, we fought a couple wars over that. We do things our way. USA! USA! USA! indeed.

​@@jasonscott6174 people do not buy train tickets, they drive, or fly. Name two points on map that high speed rail would be successful.

@@bwofficial1776 FYI Japan is located in eastern Asia, not Europe.

Thank god there weren’t - as improbable as that seems!

awesome

None *reported*.

fire doesnt get clicks

It’s the viewership numbers for the network evening news that’s dying. That’s why he’s on KZfaq to get eyeballs to watch. He got yours AND mine

also freeway is I-95 and for covid we used an n-95 mask... 🕵‍♂🕵‍♂ everything fishy...

You’re remembering Solyndra and all those idiotic research studies funded with that money, aren’t you? Me, too.

Why can't they have nontoxic fires like they used to

@@quenoselecruzenadie nope.

More like an unqualified Secretary of Transportation that is not doing his job.

@@edmartinez6946 Are you looking through your cocaine glasses again?

Yeah tankers don’t just explode they are made to withstand car crashed and have the best geometric design for a gasoline tank . This was a deliberate explosion most likely from a nation state or terroirst . A- nation state borders wide open disputes will widen and grow in intensity . The only place military equipment can be transported is highways and interstates destroy a couple bridges and you can stop them for a while till the bridge builder machines come in … they would also test it first on a rural type of place like this . I think that’s very plausible . B- a terroirst- the borders are wide open hundreads of thousands of “got aways “ never identified . C - domestic terroist

@@yougottrolledbythebest8117 you’re absolutely correct, I honestly can’t respond, you nailed everything I would have said.

@Jamison Munn - So the National Guard is hauling fuel across the country????? This don't have anything to do with the gd pipeline.

AAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!! Pipelines are far safer.

Then stop using fossil fuels so they don't have to be transported at all! 🤯🤡🤣

@@kathyyoung1774 No they're not. 🤡

@@kloften6792 you must use trucks for your sewage and water needs then also. Lol