Bridge Failure Database
Interstate 95 Bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut
| Year | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Type | Road |
| Country | United States (108) |
| Cause | Human error |
| Details | Car collided with a 36'000 l home heating oil tanker. After the ignition, fuel oil that had dropped through a drain onto a local road, also began to burn, partially melting steel girders holding up I-95. The road dropped 1.2 m before firefighters stabilised the steel's temperature with water. |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Collapse | partial |
| Phase | in service |
| Period | 1991-2009 |
| Continent | North America |
| Reference | http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usmain273725186mar27,0,2627324.story |
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