A section of one of the busiest highways in the eastern United States collapsed Sunday morning in Philadelphia following a tanker truck fire.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference that no one traveling on Interstate 95 (I-95) had been injured, but authorities were still working to “identify anyone who may have been trapped in the fire” of the tanker truck, which was driving on a secondary road below I-95.
Images broadcast on local television show a large cloud of black smoke at the time of the fire, as well as all four lanes of this stretch of highway dropping abruptly onto the secondary road below.
I-95 is one of the major highways on the east coast of the United States. The closure at the northeast entrance to Philadelphia, a city of about 1.5 million people, will have “significant impact on the city and region until rebuilding is complete,” the US Secretary of Transportation said. , Pete Buttigieg, in a message posted on the social network Twitter. .
Source: TSF
