{"id":584468,"date":"2023-06-14T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584468"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:52:38","slug":"driver-lost-control-of-gas-filled-tanker-before-fire-collapsed-main-east-coast-highway-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/driver-lost-control-of-gas-filled-tanker-before-fire-collapsed-main-east-coast-highway-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver lost control of gas-filled tanker before fire collapsed main East Coast highway: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline lost control on an off-ramp and flipped the tanker truck on its side in a wreck that set it afire and destroyed a section of the East Coast&#8217;s main north-south highway, Pennsylvania&#8217;s top transportation official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the first official accounting of a wreck that threw hundreds of thousands of morning commuters into chaos and disrupted untold numbers of businesses, state Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll said the driver was northbound &#8220;trying to navigate the curve, lost control of the vehicle, landed on its side and ruptured the tank&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Interstate 95 will be closed in both directions for weeks at the start of summer travel season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline lost control on an off-ramp and flipped the tanker truck on its side in a wreck that set it afire and destroyed a section of the East Coast&#8217;s main north-south highway, Pennsylvania&#8217;s top transportation official said Monday. In the first official accounting of a wreck that threw hundreds of thousands of morning commuters into chaos and disrupted untold numbers of businesses, state Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll said the driver was northbound &#8220;trying to navigate the curve, lost control of the vehicle, landed on its side and ruptured the tank&#8221;. As a result, Interstate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}