Semi vehicles collide in fiery blaze, closing I-85
Interstate 85 was shut down on Tuesday afternoon for a hearth involving two semi vehicles.
The incident occurred on August 1st in Warren County, North Carolina close to the Virginia state line.
The NC Freeway Patrol studies {that a} tractor trailer hauling yogurt touring at 70 mph crashed into the again of one other tractor trailer hauling flooring touring at 60 mph. Each truck drivers have been capable of exit their cabs earlier than the truck hauling yogurt caught hearth. The fireplace finally unfold to the truck hauling flooring.
Each tractor trailers have been utterly burned within the incident, and bulldozers have been used to take away the stays.
WRAL Information studies that the roadway was nonetheless closed at 2:15 p.m. These seeking to journey by way of the world are suggested to take Exit 233 (U.S. 401 South) onto U.S. 1 South and make a proper onto Manson Drewry Street to re-access I-85 South.
