{"id":16910,"date":"2024-12-04T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/two-exit-ramps-closed-indefinitely-after-i-10-oversize-load-bridge-strike\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:45:50","slug":"two-exit-ramps-closed-indefinitely-after-i-10-oversize-load-bridge-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/two-exit-ramps-closed-indefinitely-after-i-10-oversize-load-bridge-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Two exit ramps closed indefinitely after I-10 oversize load bridge strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A portion of Interstate 10 was shut down in Louisiana on Tuesday after a semi truck tried to go beneath an overpass with a large load.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on the evening of December 3rd in Lafayette, Louisiana on Interstate 10 just before 5:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadn.com\/news\/local\/i-10-i-49-reopen-after-18-wheeler-hauling-large-load-hits-overpass-some-ramps\/article_33e668e0-b1d1-11ef-b5fb-1bc9813d3800.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">News15<\/a>, the semi truck collided with the overpass on I-10 eastbound while hauling an oversize load. The incident forced the closure of I-10 and Interstate 49 for cleanup of the wreck and inspection of the overpass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-600x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-696x417.png 696w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM-1068x640.png 1068w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-3.17.52-PM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0I-49 northbound and southbound, along with I-10 eastbound at University Avenue, were shut down during the cleanup and inspection. They have since been reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has warned drivers that\u00a0 the exit ramp from I-10 East to I-49 North and exit ramp from I-49 South to I-10 East will remain closed until further notice as a result of the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/two-exit-ramps-closed-indefinitely-after-i-10-oversize-load-bridge-strike\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A portion of Interstate 10 was shut down in Louisiana on Tuesday after a semi truck tried to go beneath an overpass with a large load.\u00a0 The accident happened on the evening of December 3rd in Lafayette, Louisiana on Interstate 10 just before 5:30 p.m.\u00a0 According to News15, the semi truck collided with the overpass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}