Crash Between Car and Fuel Tanker Sparks Massive Fire on I-471 in Kentucky — Children Hospitalized, Highway Shut Down

A terrifying late-night crash in Northern Kentucky turned a major interstate into an inferno Friday evening after a passenger car collided with a fuel tanker, triggering a massive fireball that shut down the entire highway and sent three people, including two children, to the hospital.

The fiery crash occurred around 10:10 p.m. Friday on Interstate-471 southbound near the Memorial Parkway exit in Newport, according to local officials, WLWT reported.

Authorities say the collision caused the fuel tanker to overturn...