On the morning of April 29 at 3:41 a.m. driver James Mosqueda crashed his tanker truck full of gasoline on the southbound connector from I-80 to I-880 in Oakland, USA.The tanker, carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline, burst into flames causing a fire that reached the I-580 connector above. Bending steel that held up the I-580 connector caused the freeway to collapse. SFGate has an interactive presentation of how the crash happened
Watch a video of the actual collapse of the I-580 ramp.
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One interesting point to this story. The truck's cargo was not just gasoline, it was JET FUEL. The same fuel that brought down the Twin Towers and was claimed by people to not have enough heat to bend or effect steel.
Thanks Leo for the additional information.
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