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ODOT reopens section of I-75 where fiery crash damaged highway

A section of Interstate 75 southbound near the Main Street exit has been reopened temporarily following a fiery wrong-way fatal crash April 30.

The Ohio Department of Transportation decided to temporarily reopen the section because of increased Memorial Day traffic, according to a spokesperson.

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Additional repair work is still needed to the median wall and the noise wall panels, the spokesperson said.

The median wall concrete work will take about three days to finish, when ODOT schedules that part of the project.

The deadly crash that prompted the repairs involved a car travelling the wrong way and a tanker full of gasoline. The collision was captured on ODOT traffic cameras.

The driver of the car, 30-year-old Andrew Brunsman from Beavercreek, was killed and the truck driver suffered minor injuries in the collision that sent black smoke and large balls of flames shooting into the sky just north of downtown Dayton for more than an hour.

ODOT determined the highway did not have structural damage but needed urgent repairs to the paving, following by work on the median and noise panel walls.

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