AIKEN COUNTY, South Carolina/ Georgia – A violent tanker truck crash and resulting fire caused a bridge collapse on Interstate 20 near Augusta over the weekend, triggering temporary chaos on one of the South’s busiest travel corridors and raising alarm among motorists traveling from South Georgia to points north and east.
Inferno Under I-20
At approximately 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, a tanker truck carrying over 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed and caught fire underneath the Old Vaucluse Road overpass in Aiken County, South Carolina. The intense heat weakened the structural integrity of the overpass, causing a partial collapse onto I-20, one of the key interstates connecting Augusta, GA, to Columbia, SC…