Construction is underway on a replacement span over Interstate 65, near Franklin, Tenn., after a severe fire from a tanker-truck collision early on Aug. 15 destroyed a pair of bridges.
With about 62,000 vehicles daily on I-65 and 11,000 on the state Route 248 crossing, traffic in that area shut down for several hours until the fire could be extinguished and the roadway repaired so that I-65 northbound travel could resume. Southbound traffic did not resume until Aug. 18, after a two-lane bridge was declared unstable and demolished. East-west traffic is still shut off, pending construction of the new bridge.