Highway Collapse Spawns Commuter Nightmare
(CBS/AP) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency following the collapse of one of the San Francisco Bay area’s most traveled sections of freeway, as workers began clearing debris from a fiery accident that destroyed an important commuter link.
An elevated section of highway that carried motorists from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to a number of key freeways was destroyed early Sunday morning after flames from an overturned gasoline truck caused part of one overpass to melt and collapse onto another.
The accident damages an essential interchange connecting the busy San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to three major freeways, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. Locally it’s known as “the MacArthur Maze” for good reason: it’s a tangle of roadways and overpasses which 280,000 vehicles a day pass through on their way to and from the bridge.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
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