(Unconfirmed - via Twitter) - Bridge Collapse

[my2sense]

BREAKING - Bridge collapse on I-95. 1 person died. Both directions are down til further notice.

[graywarrior]

1. I-95 where?

It goes through several states.

[my2sense]

Not revealed yet - got the info from Twitter

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. From who on Twitter?

A reputable source?

[geckosfeet]

2. Along the whole east coast even...

[KG]

3. like the whole east coast.

[BunkerHill24]

14. No, not in Boston 1-95....toward Salem exit?...I hope not., I pray not.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. I-95 covers a lot of territory. (Maine to Miami I think)

[Robb]

5. Best to stay off the whole 2,000 miles of it, just to be safe.

[IDemo]

13. I'm staying off I-84 through I-101 just to be safe

[Robb]

15. I'm under the bed. RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

...and, I'm recommending this thread. :D

[Turbineguy]

26. Good thinking

It's kinda like critical speed. Could be due to torsional vibrations.

[NYC_SKP]

27. I'm Twittering from under I-5, hearing rumbles, could be trouble. omg. stay tuned. eom.

[graywarrior]

23. LOL

[WilliamPitt]

6. I'm calling congress right fucking now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Where did you hear this? I googled and didn't find anything.

[my2sense]

9. Found multiple references on twitter....still have not got the source info yet

[Warren Stupidity]

10. Ok that was perhaps the most helpful post ever.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. NJ near Newark Airpot? Earlier NY NBC news about NJ Tpke being closed near the airport.

[unhappycamper]

12. It happened in NH (and it was a Toyota)

I-95 wreck kills Exeter teen, injures two others

SEABROOK – A crash at the Exit 1 offramp of I-95 yesterday evening claimed the life of an Exeter boy.

According to state police, Brandon Petit, 18, of Raymond, was attempting to exit the highway from the southbound lane of I-95. In so doing, police say he cut in front of a tractor trailer driven by Neil Swain, 43, of Canaan, Maine.

Petit lost control of the Toyota he was driving when it was struck by the truck. The Toyota crossed a median and flipped.

According to police, a 15-year-old Exeter teen was pronounced dead at the scene by a state medical examiner. A female juvenile, 13, also of Exeter, was flown to Mass. General with serious injuries. Petit was take to Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., for non-life threatening injuries. Swain was uninjured.

The crash is under investigation by Trooper Tara Elsemiller of State Police Troop A. Anyone who witnessed the accident can contact her at 223-8490.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. That doesn't sound like a bridge collapse.

[itsrobert]

18. But what about the Bridge Collapsing?

Don't tell me twitter got it wrong.

[Fumesucker]

16. I-95 info from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95

Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main highway on the East Coast of the United States,<1> paralleling the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Florida and serving some of the most populated urban areas in the country, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Miami. It is one of the north–south routes of the Interstate Highway System, and replaced older U.S. Highways, mainly U.S. Route 1. The oldest sections of I-95, including several toll roads, predate the Interstate System; the route has yet to be completed in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area. Construction of the missing connection is scheduled to be completed by the 2010s (tentatively 2014).

I-95's two pieces total 1,925 mi (3,098 km).<2><3> The southern terminus of I-95 is at U.S. Route 1 in southern Miami, Florida. The highway heads north along the Atlantic through Jacksonville, Florida to Savannah, Georgia, and then takes a slightly more inland route through South Carolina and North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia. From Richmond past Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland, I-95 follows the fall line, where the Atlantic Coastal Plain meets the Appalachian Piedmont. The highway continues northeast through Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, after which traffic must use other roads to continue towards Newark, New Jersey until the completion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project (planned for 2014). I-95 crosses the George Washington Bridge into New York City, and then passes through New Haven, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island, around Boston, Massachusetts, and through Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Augusta, Maine on its way to the Houlton/Woodstock Border Crossing to the short New Brunswick Route 95, which connects to the Trans-Canada Highway.

It is the longest north–south Interstate Highway (five east–west routes are longer: Interstate 10 (2,460 mi (3,959 km)), Interstate 40 (2,555 mi (4,112 km)), Interstate 70 (2,153 mi (3,465 km)), Interstate 80 (2,899 mi (4,665 km)), and Interstate 90 (3,099 mi (4,987 km))),<4> and it passes through fifteen states, more than any other Interstate; the Interstate that passes through the second-most number of states is Interstate 90, at thirteen. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only five counties along the route — two in South Carolina, one in southern Virginia, and two in northern Maine — are completely rural.<5> According to the I-95 Corridor Coalition, the region served by I-95 is "over three times more densely populated than the U.S. average and as densely settled as much of Western Europe".<6>

[my2sense]

19. Sorry-I'm not getting much more from the twitter stream/search

I found out about another tragedy (Austin Plan Crash) on TWITTER and I guess I'm a little trigger happy.

I apologize for the alarm.

[my2sense]

20. Self Delete

[Ptah]

21. DRAMATIC RESCUE:

Firefighters' fast response saves man trapped after trench collapses

MILFORD — City firefighters and employees at K&W Construction rescued a
47-year-old man who was trapped when a trench collapsed
on him while working on the state’s Interstate 95 Moses Wheeler Bridge
replacement project Tuesday morning.

http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/03/17/news/doc4ba055ca713e8617996103.txt

[my2sense]

22. Update with information

NECN: Mystic, CT) - Connecticut State Police are confirming to NECN that on Saturday morning around 8 AM a tractor trailer went off the road and burst into flames in Mystic.

The fatal tractor trailer accident happened on Interstate 95 north bound near Exit 91.

One person has died from the accident. The road is currently closed in both directions so they can clean up the scene and to make sure the roadway has not sustained any damage.

Fire crews are currently on scene.

The accident is still under investigation.

They do not know what kind of load was on the truck or where the truck was coming from.


Source: http://www.necn.com/pages/landing/?blockID=201170&feedID=4206&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Twitter would seem to be almost as reliable a news source as Faux Snooze.

[annabanana]

29. see link in #22.. (Twitter first, details later). . n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. delete

[MineralMan]

28. What about I-94, then?

The numbers are close. Should I stay home today? Worry, worry, worry...

[Robb]

30. Take I-96.

It's one louder. :D