Tanker Explodes on Detroit Freeway

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<p>Wow - check out these photos. #14 is incredible!</p>

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<p>The overpass bridge collapsed on to the freeway below. No one was killed!</p>

<p>I-75 which carries about 160K cars per day is closed.</p>

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<p>The tanker’s driver was killed, though.</p>

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<p>This reminds me of the ethanol truck that exploded on a freeway here in LA recently. The driver also died, nothing was left of the tanker but the axles. Miraculously no one else was hurt as in the Detroit accident.
I’m always uneasy driving near one of these tankers on the freeway.</p>

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No he wasn’t.</p>

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<p>Wow! Amazing. I’m glad to be wrong.</p>

<p>From Huffington Post: “One minor injury was reported, Michigan State Police Lt. Shannon Sims said. The tanker driver was alive and accounted for, but Sims would not say whether that was the injured person.”</p>

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<p>Not far from where I used to live, many years ago.</p>

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<p>They just fixed and replaced those bridges in Hazel Park less than a year ago…</p>

<p>I am so glad my commute does not involve Oakland County!</p>

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<p>Guess who started the chain of events?</p>

<p>A 27-year-old Clawson male who was driving 70mph in a 50mph sharp curve zone.</p>

<p>He lost control of his car and hit the tanker truck carrying fuel.</p>

<p>::shakes my head::</p>

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<p>Not far from where I used to live, too. I don’t miss driving in Detroit. Took me 6 months to be brave enough to drive on those freeways, but after that, I felt that I could drive virtually anywhere – but still won’t drive around the Arch of Triumphe in Paris!</p>

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<p>I feel selfish even asking this, but I am travelling from Detroit toward Battle Creek/Kalamazoo tomorrow on I-94. Will this situation cause any problems? I do NOT live in the area and am coming in to the DTW airport and driving the rest of the way to my destination.</p>

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<p>No. Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) is on I-94 15-20 miles west of I-75. I-94 is (basically) an east-west freeway (Port Huron, MI to the west coast )and I-75 is (basically) a north-south freeway (Saulte St. Marie, MI to Ft. Lauderdale, FL).</p>

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<p>That’s good to know, UMDad, so thanks. Last time I was in the area (in mid May) they closed I-94 when we were driving between Battle Creek and our destination (Augusta/Galesburg) and it really gummed up the works, as I don’t know my way around that area at all, even though I was born in the Grosse Pointe/Detroit area and my dad is from Eminem territory (8 Mile Road).</p>

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<p>What was even more amazing was the sign on the gas station – $2.35 a gallon? Wow! We’re paying closer to $2.65 here!</p>

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<p>That curve is a treacherous curve. Back when the freeway was built, there were rumble strips on the curve (mid-60’s?). Once the strips wore off they never replaced them.</p>

<p>My daughter and I were just on that stretch of freeway this past weekend commenting about that very curve.</p>

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