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TANKER FIRE DESTROYS MACARTHUR MAZE

by szsurge | April 29, 2007 at 09:18 am

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At about 4 am sunday, April 29th part of a freeway section in Oakland collapses.The location where this happened just after the Bay Bridge east bound intersatate 580 part of the freeway fell on to the connector brings East Bay traffic from Interstate 80 to Interstate 880 southbound toward Oakland and San Jose. The tanker that was travelling on I-80 was full of gasoline which created the explosion and meltdown of the freeway structure. The driver of the tanker got out on his own walked 10 blocks and hailed a cab the cab driver just happened to be at the right place at the right time. The cab driver drove the injured truck driver to the nearest hospital he was critical but stable condition with burns from what witneses told me. One caltrans driver told me that there was a police officer that arrived first on the scene and received minor injuries. There was no heavy traffic this sunday morning, but Monday morning should be interesting to see on the early comute to work.

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brock

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at 09:49 on April 29th, 2007

szsurge, this is Good Stuff.

I think the photos you've provided add greatly to the context of this story.

However, the text needs a bit of work; perhaps you were writing it quickly and that's why it's hard to follow. You get kudos for going beyond the basic "eye-witness" account; you went ahead and interviewed a CalTrans worker on the scene and terrific. Anytime a NP member can get more views into their story, it's a bonus.

Just work on structuring the text a bit more. Your nose-for-news is hitting on all eight-cylinders.

I do have a question: how in the world did that driver find a cab at 4 a.m. in the morning... on the freeway??