The Roosevelt Expressway southbound ramp to I-76 West and City Avenue remained closed Wednesday – with no timetable for reopening – after a truck crashed, causing structural damage to an overpass.
State police said the truck’s load – two shipping containers stacked on a flatbed trailer – was too high to pass under the Roosevelt Expressway exit ramp when the driver was traveling on I-76 West at around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The containers were knocked off the trailer, and one of them bounced off the highway and onto another car’s windshield, according to authorities. Police said the driver of the other vehicle was taken to Lankenau Medical Center with minor injuries. An underside beam of the exit ramp was cracked, a state police spokesperson said.
Krys Johnson, a community relations coordinator for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, said designers were working on a solution Wednesday and that PennDOT has reached out to procure the necessary supplies.
State officials should have a repair timeline in the coming days, Johnson told Metro.
In the meantime, drivers on the Roosevelt Expressway, also known as U.S. 1, will be directed to take I-76 East and Montgomery Avenue to get onto I-76 West, according to PennDOT.
