I-75 Tanker Explosion in Michigan and 9 mile road bridge Hazel Park MacNifty
0Hazel Park Tanker Fire Aftermath shows the bridge damage from the fire which now completely has to come down. Road repairs could take up to a month and bridge repairs could take up to a year.
HAZEL PARK, Mich. Flames are shooting hundreds of feet in the air from a gasoline tanker explosion that has forced the shutdown of an interstate north of Detroit.
Interstate 75 in Hazel Park, about 10 miles north of downtown Detroit, was shut down Wednesday evening.
Radio station WWJ-AM reports that an overpass at the crash site collapsed after the tanker and a tractor-trailer collided about 8:30 p.m. The station says several other vehicles may have been involved in the crash, but only one minor injury was immediately reported.
A Hazel Park Fire Department dispatcher says he cannot immediately provide details.
Witnesses say flames and black, billowing plumes of smoke are reaching 150 to 200 feet into the air. WWJ reports gas that has reached sewers along the freeway has caught fire.
Watch this video and see how when a tanker truck flips over from a dumb driver side swiping the rig. Thousands of gallons of diesel and gasoline poor onto i-75 burning into the sewers, and heating up a bridge only to collapse from the heat like the trade towers. All these firestations cannot put this fire out. They don't have foam. Was this event planned perhaps? The driver only been in the united states for 2 months. Just received his license. Age 27. Could this be a test to test the surrounding metro detroit emergency response? You never know.