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NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — A bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished.. A live camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation on Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble from the destroyed Fairfield Avenue overpass above I-95 in Norwalk and dumping it into large containers and ...
The major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed in Connecticut for days after a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday. While ...
Work crews began demolishing a bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed for a second day Friday, as motorists' nerves continued to fray in hours of traffic ...
On Friday afternoon, the state Department of Transportation said the travel time was nearly 90 minutes for the 16 miles (26 kilometers) from the New York border to Route 7 in Norwalk on I-95 north. Traffic was bumper-to-bumper and some drivers' nerves were frayed along Norwalk's Connecticut Avenue, one of the detour routes.
A 100-foot (30.5 m) section of the bridge's deck on its northbound span collapsed at 1:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 28, 1983. Three people died and three more were seriously injured when two cars and two tractor-trailers fell with the bridge into the Mianus River 70 feet (21.3 m) below.
A crash on May 2 in Norwalk, CT resulted in the closure of I-95 for more than 3 days to repair a damaged bridge. Police have since determined the cause.
The Gold Star Memorial Bridge is a pair of steel truss bridges that carry both Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1 across the Thames River between New London, Connecticut and Groton, Connecticut. The bridge is the largest structure in the state, with more than 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m 2 ) of deck area, and the longest bridge in the state at 6,000 ...
Video footage of the accident and subsequent fire was posted online and determined to be from a camera at the warehouse of Baldor Specialty Foods, located near Milnor Street in Tacony. The video showed the truck leaving the highway and turning on its side while attempting to navigate a curve, before it was engulfed in a large fire. [9]