my hometown made the news! >> Fiery crash shuts down Interstate 95

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Mar 26, 2004 | 05:53 AM

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my hometown made the news! >> Fiery crash shuts down Interstate 95

http://www.boston.com/news/local/con...ociated_press/

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Vance urged commercial truck traffic from New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts to enter Connecticut from Interstate 84, or not at all.

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Mar 26, 2004 | 05:57 AM

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precious oil wasted

h:... oh yea the bridge thing sucks too, no NYC trips this weekend.

Mar 26, 2004 | 05:58 AM

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State police said a car apparently forced a tanker truck carrying 12,000 gallons of fuel oil into a guardrail, sparking a huge fire that burned for a couple of hours and damaged both sides of the highway Thursday night.

Mar 26, 2004 | 06:05 AM

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State police identified the driver of the car involved in the accident as Sarah Waddle of Derby. No charges were immediately filed.

nice job, sarah!

Mar 26, 2004 | 06:09 AM

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Dumbass 4-wheelers, I cant believe the shit that people do around trucks

Now truckers are going to have a harder time navigating that hellhole.

**** disrespectful drivers

Mar 26, 2004 | 07:35 AM

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1983 Mianus River Bridge collapse in Greenwich that killed three people.

mianus bridge collapsed :chuckles:

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thats rough.. how far away is the detour? is it wasting a ton of time?

Mar 26, 2004 | 07:45 AM

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Same thing happened near tampa... Southbound lanes of an overpass were messed up enough that they have to rebuild it. When it happened, they said it would take about a month to rebuild. Sure the same thing happened... dumb driver not paying attention. That pisses me off though.. that no charges were filed. She was prolly doing her damn makup.

Mar 26, 2004 | 07:51 AM

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thats rough.. how far away is the detour? is it wasting a ton of time?

dunno how the far the detour is, but i'm sure it's causing tons of trouble.

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Rowland said there was a possibility the northbound side of the highway could be reopened this weekend. But the southbound side of the bridge will have to be torn down, he said.

Instead of rebuilding the bridge, engineers will close the street below and use fill to span the gap between the highway and Howard Avenue. A temporary highway will then be built on top of that fill.

Rowland said work to reopen the highway would begin immediately. He said he hoped it could be completed in two weeks, and estimated the cost at between $3 million and $4 million. Rowland declared the site a disaster area, to make the project eligible for federal funds.

Mar 26, 2004 | 08:15 AM

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I saw that in the news this morning. traffic is going to be hell there for the next 9months at least. they say that to fix the overpass it will cost over $4million. that really really sucks.