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Using the Web to Navigate San Francisco Freeway Collapse

Steven Musil writes on the C|Net News Blog:

In the wake of a tanker truck crash that caused a freeway collapse in the San Francisco Bay Area, Web sites are offering photographs of the damage, as well as alternate routes for commuters.

The crash occurred at 3:45 a.m. Sunday in Oakland, igniting 8,600 gallons of gasoline on the Interstate 80 interchange and causing a section of the I-580 overpass (Google satellite image) just east of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to collapse onto the freeway below. Witnesses reported fireballs reaching more than 200 feet into the air. The truck driver escaped with second-degree burns.

The Bay Bridge is a major traffic artery in the Bay Area, carrying about 280,000 commuters each day. While the bridge itself was not damaged, the fire is expected to cause major traffic disruptions for weeks or months to come.

posted by Fergie @ 4/29/2007 01:31:00 PM