Miami Causeway Bus Fire Halts Traffic

April 16, 2010
MIAMI --  All lanes are back open on the Julia Tuttle Causeway after a Miami-Dade County bus caught fire. The driver was the only person on the transit bus when it began to smoke just after 7 a.m. Officers shutdown all eastbound lanes of Interstate-195 at Alton Road so firefighters could put out the fire. The closure caused backups all the way to the other end of the causeway.

MIAMI --

All lanes are back open on the Julia Tuttle Causeway after a Miami-Dade County bus caught fire.

The driver was the only person on the transit bus when it began to smoke just after 7 a.m.

Officers shutdown all eastbound lanes of Interstate-195 at Alton Road so firefighters could put out the fire. The closure caused backups all the way to the other end of the causeway.

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