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Fuel tanker explodes, burns under Interstate 40 in Flagstaff

By FOX 10 Staff
Updated  March 17, 2020 4:17am MST
Flagstaff
Associated Press

Car fire in Flagstaff

A FOX 10 viewer caught a vehicle fire on camera. It happened at Butler Avenue and I-40.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 were briefly closed after a fuel tanker exploded and burned Monday night after overturning on a street under the freeway.

Police Lt. Frank Higgins said the truck’s driver was injured but is expected to survive and that nobody else was injured, the Arizona Daily Sun reported.

Witness Loren Graves said the tanker didn’t slow coming down the I-40 eastbound off-ramp at Butler Avenue and overturned when it failed to make the turn at the bottom of the ramp.