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The driver of a tanker that crashed on Interstate 75 and exploded Wednesday night returned to the scene Friday with investigators.

The driver of the car involved in the fiery crash Wednesday night on Interstate 75 that collapsed the Nine Mile overpass was driving faster than the 50 mph limit and lost control of his vehicle before hitting a gasoline tanker, authorities said.

There was relief and a bit of amazement Friday that I-75 at 9 Mile, the scene just days earlier of a crash and explosion that brought down an overpass and closed two miles of the freeway, could be reopened to traffic as early as Monday morning.

When some members of a local equestrian club became disillusioned with the Macomb Orchard Trail and its multi-usage claims, they decided to take matters into their own hands.

BY MEGHA SATYANARAYNA, TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA AND MATT HELMS * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS * July 16, 2009 Updated at 2:45 p.m. Story summary: Crews continue this afternoon to assess the damage at I-75 and 9 Mile after a gasoline tanker exploded on Wednesday in Hazel Park.

Free Press reporter Steve Neavling is covering President Barack Obama's appearance this afternoon at Macomb Community College in Warren.

Michelle Foy Sucaet will paint on just about anything. Walls, doors, tables - whatever she can get her hands on.