I-95 overpass in Connecticut scorched during a fuel truck inferno has been demolished

Workers person demolished a span implicit a Connecticut road that was damaged successful a fiery clang involving a gasoline tanker truck

NORWALK, Conn. -- A span damaged successful a fiery clang that kept Interstate 95 successful Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished.

A unrecorded camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation connected Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble from the destroyed Fairfield Avenue overpass supra I-95 successful Norwalk and dumping it into ample containers and dump trucks to beryllium hauled away.

Crews started tearing down the span connected Friday greeting and work, including the repaving of damaged parts of the roadway, was expected to past done the weekend.

Workers are aiming to get each six lanes of postulation connected the interstate, which is the main artery linking New England and New York, reopened earlier unreserved hr Monday morning.

The span was scorched Thursday greeting aft a gasoline tanker collided into 2 different vehicles and burst into flames.

State constabulary said a car was merging from the close lane erstwhile it struck the state truck, which was carrying 8,500 gallons (32,000 liters) of fuel. The motortruck past deed a tractor trailer successful different lane and caught fire. Nobody was earnestly injured, and nary charges person been filed.

About 160,000 vehicles question regular connected the affected agelong of I-95.

The span removal and roadworthy repairs could outgo astir $20 million, with the state’s legislature delegation asking the Federal Highway Administration for exigency funds to wage each the expenses.