I-95 crash
Full coverage of the fuel tanker crash on Interstate 95
Victim's relatives sue over I-95 crash
Relatives of one of the four people who died in a fiery crash on Interstate 95 in January are suing the owner and operator of a tanker truck that plunged off an overpass and into the path of oncoming traffic. Read more ...
Driver's health blamed for crash
The driver of the gasoline tanker that plunged from an overpass onto Interstate 95 in January apparently had a heart attack or other sudden medical problem that caused him to lose control of his truck, according to a report released today on the fiery crash that claimed four lives. Read more ...
Investigators complete on-scene work in probe of fatal I-95 tanker fire
Federal investigators completed their on-scene work yesterday in the investigation of last week's tanker explosion on Interstate 95, returning to their offices with reams of evidence and witness statements but no clear explanation for the crash that took four lives. Read more ...
Tanker accident reconstructed
The lead federal investigator probing last week's explosion of a tanker truck on Interstate 95 discounted yesterday the theory that gasoline shifting within the tanker caused it to move erratically and fall from an overpass onto the highway. Read more ...
Fearing worst about cabbie
When Baltimore taxi driver Marc Baladi failed to show up at the home of Terri Uttermohlen on Tuesday afternoon, she knew something was amiss. He had just dropped off a ballet teacher in Columbia, then phoned to say he would be arriving in half an hour. Read more ...
Driver of fuel truck lived, died with risks
Jack Frost called his wife, Geri, early Tuesday afternoon with some bad news. He had locked his keys in his tanker truck, he said. But not to worry. He'd soon be rolling again, and would see her that night. Read more ...
Petro-Chemical 'deficient' in accident rating
The company that owns the tanker that exploded on Interstate 95 this week received a "deficient" accident rating from a federal safety agency because its trucks have been involved in a high number of crashes in the past few years. Read more ...
'People are dead in the trucks. ... They're exploding'
The following are transcripts provided by Howard County police of the first calls to dispatchers notifying authorities of Tuesday's fuel tanker accident on Interstate 95, followed by the communications between dispatchers and emergency workers responding to the call. Read more ...
Speed, shifting load suspected as possible causes of I-95 crash
The tanker truck that exploded on Interstate 95 Tuesday was moving erratically, and its load of gasoline was shifting violently, before the truck plunged rear-end-first from an overpass onto the highway, according to investigators and witnesses interviewed by police. Read more ...
How BWI's 'Big Papa' took down the inferno
Five firefighters from Baltimore-Washington International Airport hopped onto a ladder truck and headed to what they thought was a routine house fire in Anne Arundel County. Then the dispatchers revised the call: motor vehicle accident with fire. Read more ...
Investigators trace fragments of crash
A single chunk of metal with a number stamped into it. A car door dented in the shape of a tractor-trailer's massive tire. A few ounces of human blood. Read more ...
'A wall of flame'
A fuel tanker veered off an overpass and plunged onto Interstate 95 in Howard County yesterday afternoon, killing at least four people, triggering huge explosions and towering flames, and shutting down the East Coast's main highway into the night. Read more ...
Fiery crash chars bridge, snarls roads
The tanker truck explosion that closed Interstate 95 yesterday afternoon forced thousands of commuters and long-distance travelers onto clogged alternate routes, where they crept through hourlong backups, missed afternoon flights and got lost on unfamiliar roads. Read more ...
'It was billowing black smoke'
John Koenig was channel-surfing in his second-floor apartment in Relay yesterday afternoon when he heard a boom "10 times louder" than the banging and clanging he normally hears from the nearby train tracks. Read more ...
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