I-95 COLLAPSE in Philadelphia | What REALLY Happened 

It looks like either a mechanical failure or a medical condition that caused this….he was used to this route and knew the ramp…..something happened.

He took the turn to Fast. His has been driving over 10 years. He took that trip many times. #STAYSAFE #PHILLYPHILLY 🇺🇸

Do you think he really had on 8500 gals of fuel?

@@robertlee7606 he just picked his tanker at the terminal it was full it was 5 something in the morning the accident happen highway collapsed at 630ish it’s 25 mins from my house I own a trucking company dump trucks and I’m literally standing on site as I type this getting loaded up

​@@marktretter4928Honestly, being overly familiar with a route could be a boon or a detriment. It lets the driver know what to expect, but it could also make them complacent.

I remember this.

I95 in Chester,PA also was closed for a bit because of a tanker accident that killed like 3 people

True

But all it means is all the traffic that would normally be on 95 is now backing up 295. All those feeder roads like that state road that goes from the turnpike to Center City is probably jammed.

130 and 295 is what I use even during regular days much quicker

The NJ turnpike is probably the most efficient bypass of a major city in the whole country, at least for Philly

@@duncanmcauley7932 Indeed, I've driven on both, and couldn't believe how bad I-95 was (although it's been 6 or so years since I did it last.) If we could just get something similar for NYC and DC.

yup yup, can't remember not seeing construction north of center city since forever.

It's like that everywhere. They've been working on 294 in Chicago forever as well

This project will never end. I think they started this almost 20 years ago

Tunnels are better???

That's a ridiculous thing to say. Redundancy is a good insurance policy. Transit systems can be disabled very simply.

Honestly just being level headed here, more options in general would be a good thing for the US and many countries in similar situations.

Yeah that’s good. It shocked me here in Atlanta how quickly they rebuilt I-85

I remember that one. Nine Mile Rd in Hazel Park

Yep,I remember that one,it was either 8 mile or 9 mile bridge. There was one at I69 at the loop around Indianapolis several years ago

Video just got released- he took the off ramp way too fast, rolled the truck and it immediately went up in flames. He either died on impact or burned.

​@@bdub215it's still possible he had medical episode that caused him to not slow down,

@@truckercowboyed2638 I’m not gonna say that’s unreasonable, but look up what you need to pass a DOT physical. You have to be pretty much the definition of healthy.

An off-ramp with a hard left turn rated at like 25 miles an hour. You got to the bottom of the hill and it rolls. Truck goes boom.

@@bdub215 dude I'm a trucker I know what's required, I'm saying heart attacks can happen to even healthy people...

This is an important highway closing, but it wouldn't compare it with a failure on the 401. The reason is that this part of I-95 -- unlike most of I-95 -- is not the main East Coast interstate. This part of I-95 is basically a Philadelphia area commuting route. Traffic coming North on I-95 through Delaware bound for New York City and New England will turn off I-95 before Wilmington, cross the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and continue north on the New Jersey Turnpike, which regains the I-95 designation at the Pennsylvania Turnpike interchange.

@@davidneman6527 I-95 in Philly has seen a lot more thru-traffic since the completion of the I-95/PA Turnpike interchange finally connecting I-95 together

401 outside of the greater Toronto area that is

Yeah but as a lifelong resident what you don’t know is Philadelphia is ran by thieves and the city is dead broke. Better hope they can get money from Harrisburg or the Federal government

Sadly northeast philly has much less transit relative to center city, south and west philly, as well as areas around manayunk. Hopefully they construct the Boulevard subway which would really help out the northeast philly area. Ultimately your not wrong though, we do have the luxury of 2 regional rail lines, amtrak and buses in the area so still better then atlanta haha

You still living in Westchester my guy?

This is exactly what they did in Philly. I think it took 16 days.

Ayo!! I asked a question..

wouldn't really call it tragic no one was hurt except the driver

SEPTA to their credit has beefed up service on the R7 Trenton line

CalTrans contractor did a similar job in 25 says. Beat that !!

43 days is extremely optimistic. Even worse is that both North and southbound Lanes have to be rebuilt now. The fire compromised both sides.

LOL, if you know anything about PA and I95 then you know that we can't do anything quickly. That road has been under reconstruction since the day it opened.

@@my2cents945 very true. In fact this whole section of Road had been under reconstruction since 2012. And the overpasses were finished in like 2017.

I was in ATL working at the time...and the weeks after were a nightmare getting around (as they already are on a regular day). Ironically, I was supposed to travel to Philly from NY this past weekend but on Saturday decided to wait.

Going to Harrisburg to avoid a toll is a little extreme.

Thanks for the update

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I can see it being fully replaced around Labor Day. from what I understand, the removal of the collapsed sections has been completed as of yesterday, and that was estimated to take a week. a temporary structure to allow three lanes of traffic in each direction should be done around in a few weeks, likely right after Independence Day.

I wonder if they considered placing shoring under the remaining side to reopen it while reconstructing the collapsed side. Then later they could remove the shoring and rebuild that side too.

Can't agree with that.. this truck driver caused a lot of harm to society by his reckless driving. Many millions of dollars worth of damage, not including the harm to the economy, or inconvenience to hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens. I know he paid the ultimate price for it, but he's the last person deserving of public recognition. The only memorial for him should be at the end of a mandatory video shown to each and every new tanker driver on how NOT to drive a truck and how not to expose your fellow citizens to direct harm or death, or indirect harm. I'm a truck driver, ( 20 years now) so I know the responsibility that comes with operating an 80,000 lb vehicle. I can't fathom how any fellow truck driver operating a tanker truck loaded with a flammable load would ever drive so imprudently/recklessly.. if he was driving like that, he probably regularly sped over the speed limit and recommended speeds on ramps. Don't get me wrong.. it's very sad that he died, and for his loved ones.. but a public memorial for him isn't appropriate.

I can't agree since this was driver error unless the truck experienced mechanical failure or driver experience medical emergency.

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That's funny. You think the NJ Turnpike Authority wants to make it easy to leave the Turnpike??? They are part of the reason the PA turnpike/i-95 flyover took 30 years to build.

@@njdevilku1340 A NJ 42 exit would actually give people MORE incentive to use the Turnpike, since they could get on it earlier than Exit 6. Also, how the NJ Turnpike Authority keep PennDOT from building an interchange between 95 and the PA Turnpike, which is what closed the gap? I know they cancelled the Somerset Freeway which caused the gap in the first place, but they have no authority over interchange construction in PA.

I think the lack of interchanges on the NJ Turnpike are intentional to minimize use by local traffic.

@@MileageMike485 Well yeah, you don't want to have tons of interchanges on a turnpike, but some of the choices of exits, especially towards the south, empty onto local roads to the point where you'd think it's designed for the exact opposite purpose, they seem like they're designed more for locals than long range drivers. NJ 42 would make sense for a Turnpike exit because it's a major highway for larger and longer range destinations like Camden, Philly, and Atlantic City. Instead they made an exit with NJ 168, which is a more local road with tons of traffic lights and seems to be designed for local traffic. So why was there an exit created for 168 instead of 42 if the purpose is to funnel longer distance traffic to and from major destinations in NJ? EDIT: Did some research and found that 168 is an old alignment of 42, so that made some sense at the time, but in the present day it really needs an exit with 42 more than 168. Not sure if they'll ever demolish the interchange with 168, but they definitely need to at least add one with 42. If there's one road that needs to empty onto the Turnpike it's I-76 and there's no real way to do that without taking local roads.

New Jersey? Rescind a fee?

@@jasonfischer8946Yeah.. never happen. I remember Delaware one year suspended tolls on Thanksgiving weekend to speed traffic along.

Wouldn’t make much of a difference.. it’s all EZPass lanes. I don’t think there are any cash/manned lanes left.

@@JimAllen-Persona I'm shocked about Delaware doing that. They have the nerve to charge a fee for crossing into their state. Not this fool; I go around it.

I-295 (free) runs parallel with the NJ Turnpike in the affected area. There's no need to pay a toll if you're just trying to re-route around the bridge collapse.

Actually this whole section of road has been worked on since like 2012. That overpass was done in like 2017.

Not if you don’t wanna pay tolls

@@phillygrunt2154 there arent tolls on i295

@@m--a there are tolls on all the bridges to Jersey

​@@ReallyBadDriving Wrong. There are tolls to LEAVE NJ. Its free to enter the state, we just hold you hostage to escape.

@@njdevilku1340 lol nj does the same thing on the hudson river crossings