2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse
On June 11, 2023, a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath the overpass that carries Interstate 95 (I-95) at the Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73, Cottman Avenue) interchange in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. The extreme heat caused the northbound lanes to collapse and damaged the southbound lanes, closing roughly nine miles (14 km) of both directions of I-95, between the Betsy Ross Bridge/Aramingo Avenue (exit 26) and PA 63/Woodhaven Road (exit 35). The swift construction of a temporary roadway enabled traffic to resume on June 23, less than two weeks after the fire.
Federal Highway Administration Administrator Shailen Bhatt inspects the collapsed overpass | |
I-95/PA 73 interchange | |
| Date | June 11, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Time | 6:20 am (EDT) |
| Location | Tacony, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Coordinates | 40°01′27″N 75°01′51″W |
| Type | Bridge collapse |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Non-fatal injuries | 0 |
The incident recalled the 2007 collapse of a connector in the MacArthur Maze in Oakland, California, and the 2017 collapse of an I-85 overpass in Atlanta, Georgia.