Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after it was struck by a container ship

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Shocking footage. Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after it was struck by a container ship.

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— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) March 26, 2024

SITUATION REPORT: BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE

- At 1:28 a.m. ET, a large container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

- Large parts of the bridge immediately collapsed, sending multiple vehicles into the water, including a group of construction workers.

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— BNO News (@BNONews) March 26, 2024

[tredadda]

I don’t even know what to say. How something like that could happen is beyond me. It just sucks for anyone who was on that bridge at the time. From the little I saw it does look like there were cars that were sent into the river.

[smithandrew051]

No idea how the **** that’s possible. Some sort of major **** up by that ship.

Something out of a movie.

[displacedinMN]

even early morning, in a metro area, there had to be a lot of people on that bridge

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by scho63

I HATED driving over that bridge. I tried to avoid it every chance I had when driving from property to property unless no other option.

We have a lot of shitty bridges in this country. Piss poor infrastructure. East Coast and Midwest have a ton of steel garbage we all drive over daily.

No bridge is designed to take that kind of impact.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

even early morning, in a metro area, there had to be a lot of people on that bridge

Probably not at 1:30 a.m. Eastern.

[Sassy Squatch]

Wonder how long it's going to **** the port of Baltimore. Could be an absolute disaster economically

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

Wonder how long it's going to **** the port of Baltimore. Could be an absolute disaster economically

At least a year if not more.

[SHOWTIME]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

No idea how the **** that’s possible. Some sort of major **** up by that ship.

Something out of a movie.

Power went out on the ship just moments before the collision...

This video starts sooner & explains as well as show exactly what happened👉the ship lost power, got it back briefly, lost power for good & then hit the bridge.https://t.co/JSMF8xiITz

— targirl81 (@targirl81) March 26, 2024

[wazu]

Would kind of like to hear a nerdy breakdown of the physics involved here. It looks like such a slow-moving boat. Like, can't I just reach out my foot and give it a little love-tap to stop it? But obviously it's basically a floating island of weight. Really makes you think how many times per day a similar ship goes under a similar bridge and everybody on the bridge has their lives in the hands of an unknown crew they will never even know existed.

[wazu]

Would kind of like to hear a nerdy breakdown of the physics involved here. It looks like such a slow-moving boat. Like, can't I just reach out my foot and give it a little love-tap to stop it? But obviously it's basically a floating island of weight. Really makes you think how many times per day a similar ship goes under a similar bridge and everybody on the bridge has their lives in the hands of an unknown crew they will never even know existed.

[Bwana]

Wow, that sucks. I have been over that bridge at least a dozen times myself. It's bad enough it happened in the first place, but glad it didn't happen around 5:30PM.

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by SHOWTIME

Power went out on the ship just moments before the collision...

This video starts sooner & explains as well as show exactly what happened👉the ship lost power, got it back briefly, lost power for good & then hit the bridge.https://t.co/JSMF8xiITz

— targirl81 (@targirl81) March 26, 2024

Damn, the timing on those power losses was terrible.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by raybec 4

Damn, the timing on those power losses was terrible.

Like some Final Destination shit

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by wazu

Would kind of like to hear a nerdy breakdown of the physics involved here. It looks like such a slow-moving boat. Like, can't I just reach out my foot and give it a little love-tap to stop it? But obviously it's basically a floating island of weight. Really makes you think how many times per day a similar ship goes under a similar bridge and everybody on the bridge has their lives in the hands of an unknown crew they will never even know existed.

Newton’s first Law of Motion. They don’t exactly have brakes that they can slam on to stop on a dime.

[seamonster]

Originally Posted by SHOWTIME

Power went out on the ship just moments before the collision...

This video starts sooner & explains as well as show exactly what happened👉the ship lost power, got it back briefly, lost power for good & then hit the bridge.https://t.co/JSMF8xiITz

— targirl81 (@targirl81) March 26, 2024

You can follow the ships track on a maritime tracking tool and it was acting erratically.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...39.236/zoom:14

Bottom line is there should have been a fleet of tugs pulling this ship and its moronic captain out of harms way.

[stevieray]