[8][9] Transportation Secretary Michael B. Carroll later stated that the driver had been attempting to navigate a northbound curve and lost control of the vehicle causing it to land on its side and rupture the tank.

[8] The fire produced sufficient heat to weaken the supporting steel girders, causing part of the interstate to collapse about eight minutes before firefighters arrived.

[10] Video footage of the accident and subsequent fire was posted online and determined to be from a camera at the warehouse of Baldor Specialty Foods, located near Milnor Street in Tacony.

The video showed the truck leaving the highway and turning on its side while attempting to navigate a curve, before it was engulfed in a large fire.

[9] Other videos of the resulting fire were filmed by drivers, including one which seems to show the videographer's vehicle and others driving over a "dip" along the road as smoke billows out from underneath both sides of the highway.

[14] He was identified as a 53-year-old father of three named Nathan Moody and had died due to blunt trauma of the head, inhalation and thermal injuries per the Philadelphia Department of Health.

[10] A full rebuild of the collapsed section of I-95, the primary north–south route along the East Coast that runs from Miami to the Canadian border in Maine, would have lasted several months.

[28] After a few days of severe rush hour delays, traffic had nearly returned to normal as drivers found alternate routes, switched to transit, or worked from home.

That policy described the manhole covers as devices that will form a seal in case of a vehicle rollover and noted an incident a year earlier in which a cover had been left unsecured, “allowing leakage and causing an environmental spill.” [29] The two-week reconstruction of the highway was considered uncharacteristically rapid, and commentators such as Matthew Yglesias took it as evidence that the generally slow pace of infrastructure construction in the United States is a deliberate policy choice that can be circumvented when desired.

[33] Comparisons were drawn to previous planned or unplanned highway closures in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles in which the predicted "carmageddon" never came to pass.