Tanker crash closes part of East Coast highway: "Traffic in Bridgeport, Connecticut, dragged to a near-halt Friday morning hours after an oil tanker crashed and burst into a ball of fire on Interstate-95, causing extensive damage to the roadway and forcing officials to close the interstate in both directions. "

The ripple effect from this is going to be lovely. I-84 East, which runs from NY through CT to the Mass Pike, is going to be a nightmare while this is being fixed. Miraculously, though, no one was injured seriously. Besides the re-routed traffic, this won't affect us too much; the only realy direct affect will be felt by my father - he takes either exit 25 or 26 to get to his yacht club - and he can figure a way around it.