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Traffic snarled as workers begin removing bridge over I-95 following truck fire in Connecticut

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Workers have begun removing a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck. The demolition that began Friday morning is expected to keep both sides of Interstate 95 in Norwalk closed through the weekend and extend a traffic nightmare on the major artery linking New England and New York. Gov.

A tanker truck filled with gasoline burst into flames in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in Connecticut . The wreck closed the East Coast’s main north-south highway Thursday and caused major traffic jams, but the state’s governor said there were no serious injuries.

Traffic on both sides of the highway was being corralled from three travel lanes into exit-only lanes as drivers were detoured onto local streets around the crash site. Livestreams showed cars and trucks creeping slowly on the exit ramps. The state Department of Transportation said the travel time was over an hour for the 16 miles from the New York border to Route 7 in Norwalk on I-95 north.

Text alerts were sent to residents of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and trucking companies who use the section of I-95 were notified to find alternative routes and means of travel. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said in social media postings that federal highway officials were working with Connecticut authorities.

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