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A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, has collapsed after a large container boat collided with it early Tuesday morning. Reports came in around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday that a large vessel crashed into the bridge carrying north and southbound lanes of Interstate 695, catching on fire before causing multiple vehicles to fall into the Patapsco River below. At least seven vehicles have collapsed into the water, Baltimore City Fire spokesman Kevin Cartwright confirmed with WTOP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMDoToEo4k By the looks of it, it was roadworkers and traffic authority vehicles in the spans that collapsed. Doesn't look like any moving vehicles were on that part as it collapsed. Not much info coming in from my end of the world at the moment.  
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poo poo Expect multiple casualties from this.
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Mar 26, 2024 08:52
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calling dibs on the podcast
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Mar 26, 2024 08:53
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gently caress this is so much worse than I thought. I thought the ship hitting and it collapsing happened within seconds/minutes of each other.
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Mar 26, 2024 08:59
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quote:Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge has been closed to traffic following an "incident," the Maryland Transportation Authority said. Glad they clarified that traffic can't cross the gaping chasm where a bridge used to be.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:06
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gay picnic defence posted:Glad they clarified that traffic can't cross the gaping chasm where a bridge used to be. The cybertruck can still get through.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:09
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why were there first responders on the bridge after the ship had already collided with it and some cars fallen down?
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Mar 26, 2024 09:11
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Dell_Zincht posted:poo poo You think?
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Mar 26, 2024 09:12
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Ship fuel doesn't melt steal beams, how could this happen?
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Mar 26, 2024 09:12
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Celexi posted:why were there first responders on the bridge after the ship had already collided with it and some cars fallen down? To rescue people that might still be on the bridge.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:12
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The boat was also on fire so presumably they wanted to put that out.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:15
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gently caress, what an apocalyptic way to go. At least it didn't happen during the day when traffic would have been much heavier.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:21
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Gonna feel real weird to look out towards that part of the bay and see nothing
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Mar 26, 2024 09:24
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Vaxxed?
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Mar 26, 2024 09:25
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If any city in the world deserve it, its Baltimore. They've been living high on the hog for far too long if you ask me.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:25
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Don’t know why but the article I read said it’s a 29meter ship, it’s closer to 300 meters. It also looks like it plowed straight into the bridge and instantly knocked it down. Everyone on the bridge of that ship including the harbour pilot is up poo poo creek.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:25
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Bad Purchase posted:calling dibs on the podcast SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Ship fuel doesn't melt steal beams, how could this happen?
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Mar 26, 2024 09:29
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Mr Teatime posted:Don’t know why but the article I read said it’s a 29meter ship, it’s closer to 300 meters. It also looks like it plowed straight into the bridge and instantly knocked it down. Everyone on the bridge of that ship including the harbour pilot is up poo poo creek. The bridge now on on the bridge of that ship has probably given him bigger problems.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:31
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Mr Teatime posted:Don’t know why but the article I read said it’s a 29meter ship, it’s closer to 300 meters. It also looks like it plowed straight into the bridge and instantly knocked it down. Everyone on the bridge of that ship including the harbour pilot is up poo poo creek. I don't think it instantly took the bridge down, you can see abunch of emergency vehicles on the bridge itself when it collapses. The initial impact was probably bad enough but then it looks like the vessel was just hard up against the bridge footing and if the current was pushing it into the bridge as well after the impact that would've contributed. But yeah there's gonna be a big investigation and the pilot/captain/owners are probably gonna get reamed depending on the findings.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:33
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All I know is _somebody_ owes us a new bridge
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Mar 26, 2024 09:35
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Poohs Packin posted:If any city in the world deserve it, its Baltimore. They've been living high on the hog for far too long if you ask me. 
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Mar 26, 2024 09:36
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Longer video/different angle https://x.com/ozvascdoc/status/1772536840412598455?s=20 looks like the ship lost power before the collision
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Mar 26, 2024 09:36
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obviously they had a job to do, rescuing people but was it really the right thing to do to move so many emergency vehicles and workers onto the bridge that was in distress and of uncertain structural status? edit: I was misunderstanding - the bridge collapsed rapidly, the emergency vehicles were there for some other reason. Hammerite fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 09:36
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free hubcaps posted:I don't think it instantly took the bridge down, you can see abunch of emergency vehicles on the bridge itself when it collapses. The initial impact was probably bad enough but then it looks like the vessel was just hard up against the bridge footing and if the current was pushing it into the bridge as well after the impact that would've contributed. But yeah there's gonna be a big investigation and the pilot/captain/owners are probably gonna get reamed depending on the findings. you're wrong. the bridge immediately collapsed once it got hit by the boat. not sure what you're talking about. there was a livestream of that bridge here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg you'll have to scroll through to 1:28:45 which is right before the boat hits. once it does the boat immediately collapses the bridge.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:38
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https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1772514015790477667?s=20
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Mar 26, 2024 09:39
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Mar 26, 2024 09:41
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Serak posted:Longer video/different angle drat, I didn't think it would happen that fast... must've been loving terrifying to be in one of those cars
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Mar 26, 2024 09:43
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No longer a key bridge is it
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Mar 26, 2024 09:48
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Tijuana-A-Go-Go posted:drat, I didn't think it would happen that fast... must've been loving terrifying to be in one of those cars
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Mar 26, 2024 09:48
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Strong Sauce posted:you're wrong. the bridge immediately collapsed once it got hit by the boat. not sure what you're talking about. Yea you're right, you can see it in the longer video. There's a bunch of emergency/ DOT vehicles on the bridge though, you can see their flashing lights;must've been there for an unrelated reason.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:48
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Not to downplay any of this because undoubtedly a bunch of people just died, but it doesn't look like there was anyone actually crossing the bridge at the time of impact (you can't see the extra span to the right on the livestream, but it's visible in the other video), and so it may just have been limited to the ~4 work vehicles on the bridge and the workers associated with them, which is a lovely, but best-case scenario.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:57
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 https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:2810451/mmsi:563004200/imo:9697428/vessel:DALI
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Mar 26, 2024 09:57
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Can't park there, mate.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:58
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Cable Guy posted:Video has been sped up in that tweet. It happens in less than 10 seconds or so between collision and collapse.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:00
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Just behind the bridge there are some pylons for what I guess is an elevated power transmission line. After the bridge goes down you can see the red flashing beacon of one pylon still on. Those pylons were protected from ship collisions with substantial barrier islands at the base. They're hexagonal concrete things visible on google maps. Not visible on google maps are any similar protective features around the Key Bridge pillars. The central span is held up between what resembles two large concrete A-frames, the foundations of which appears to have (had) no surrounding protective features all.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:09
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How the absolute gently caress!
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Mar 26, 2024 10:11
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Holy poo poo
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Mar 26, 2024 10:15
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LazyMaybe posted:looking forward to more epic jokes about this tragedy that just happened and definitely killed quite a few people Unlike the bridge, we'll be here all morning.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:16
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Proof that those engineers were doing their job correctly, that bridge was just barely staying up
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frumpykvetchbot posted:Just behind the bridge there are some pylons for what I guess is an elevated power transmission line. After the bridge goes down you can see the red flashing beacon of one pylon still on. Those pylons were protected from ship collisions with substantial barrier islands at the base. They're hexagonal concrete things visible on google maps. Those electrical pylon barriers are not nearly big enough to have protected them from a ship of this size, and installing something on the bridge pylons that would have would be an immense structure Not saying it shouldn't have been done though - there aren't many places in the world that would put a bridge with exposed and vulnterable pylons in the middle of what I understand is a major shipping channel.
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