Fiery Blast Kills 4 After Truck Falls Off Overpass
At least four people were killed after a tanker truck carrying a flammable liquid plunged off a highway overpass and exploded into a fiery mass on other vehicles along Interstate 95 near Baltimore, officials said.
“The people in the cars never had a chance,” said Dwane Roberts, a truck driver who saw the tanker crash to the road below. Gary McLhinney, police chief of the Maryland Transportation Authority, said the number of dead could rise in the crash.
The tanker landed in the northbound lane of I-95, just below the overpass carrying the southbound lane of Interstate 895, police said. At least three other vehicles also burned down to their frames during the fire.
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