{"id":1931,"date":"2007-04-30T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/04\/30\/road-insanity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:28","slug":"road-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/04\/30\/road-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was driving a tanker full of <em>8,600 gallons of unleaded gas<\/em>, and he was speeding. At one of the busiest freeway interchanges in the Bay Area &#8212; the MacArthur Maze between the Ikea store in Emeryville and the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge &#8212; he crashed. The resulting fire burned so intensely it caused the road to collapse. Some 280,000 commuters use this interchange every day. Amazingly, the driver survived with second-degree burns and because the crash occurred in the middle of the night, no one else was injured. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be a commuter today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href='http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/highwaytankercrash.jpg' title='Photo by Noah Berger\/Oakland Tribune'><img src='http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/highwaytankercrash.jpg' alt='Photo by Noah Berger\/Oakland Tribune' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(Photo by Noah Berger\/Oakland Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>The entire article can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_5783312?nclick_check=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was driving a tanker full of 8,600 gallons of unleaded gas, and he was speeding. At one of the busiest freeway interchanges in the Bay Area &#8212; the MacArthur Maze between the Ikea store in Emeryville and the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge &#8212; he crashed. The resulting fire burned so intensely it caused the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}