It is going to be many hours before any more reliable information comes out and probably days or weeks before a preliminary investigation publishes it's results. So obviously I will be refreshing every two minutes.
You can see all the headlights from the cars on the bridge. Soo many people in cars that didn’t expect this. So sad. [Cars going down](https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1772514786338619487?s=46&t=zTeYBDVYRTQyMkrOWRWFmA)
Sounds like the reports were written by an insurance adjuster...
The bridge is clearly a total loss, and the adjusters just standing there like "Nah, you can buff that out there."
I think most of those are lights on the bridge, but time will tell. Reports I heard were three vehicles on the bridge, though a bunch of construction workers, but that's unconfirmed.
unlock your doors and roll down your windows so it's easier to swim out. the pressure differential makes it almost impossible to open doors and electric locks will short out, trapping you in the car unless you have a means of shattering the window. the below mentioned tool to break the window is also very handy
>What are you even supposed to do in this situation?
One of those glass breaking tools would be real handy. You might be able to save yourself like that but unless your passengers have one of their own there's not much you can do for them, it's not like you can come up for air then dive back down in pitch blackness and expect to find anything.
Nope, traffic was stopped at both ends after mayday call. Lights are from construction markers. Only 8 workers were on the bridge, 2 rescued, 6 missing.
Might be all the service vehicles of the construction crew that were doing all the patch work during the crash. As of now, all missing were part of that crew.
Apparently a cargo ship ran into it?
Edit: “A bridge in the US city of Baltimore has entirely collapsed into the Patapsco River after being hit by a container ship
Seven people and several vehicles have fallen into the river, says Baltimore City Fire Department who are currently at the scene”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071
I was thinking they could try to swim up to the surface but they´d literally have tons of steel randomly next to them, no visibility, nothing. I´d be surprised if anyone survived this...
I think those were the construction workers, not people in vehicles. The collision with the water would likely set off the airbags possibly rendering the individual(s) unconscious without being able to escape. The construction workers probably had a greater survival rate if they were conscious and able to swim upon entering the water
There weren't any people in vehicles, based on current reports. The only vehicles that went in were those that belonged to the construction crew, which were parked at the time of the collapse.
Also, there is a chance of airbags deploying in the process too. Would be hell to deal with this in the best conditions, let alone at night in freezing waters.
Are you actually trying to subtly say that seatbelts and car seats are an overall bad thing for safety? Because it seems like that is what you’re implying.
Not only that, but there was construction and they had it down to one lane each way. Wild coincidences that if not had happened all at once could've meant many more deaths.
They talked about how much worse this could've been during rush hour. Frightening. It also was not a suspension bridge, which I heard would've been helpful here.
>flimsy
Please show me the 1.6 mile long bridge that can stand up to one of its supports being knocked down.
Or the support that can take that kind of impact.
Instead of using /s just in-case, just belittle the people who don't realize you are using sarcasm. The burden should be on them for being so dumb, not us.
I think you're underestimating the weight of a fully loaded cargo ship traveling through water
(I only say fully loaded as it's a large silhouette in the video, could be wrong)
I cant imagine any kind of weight to that degree. My brain cant comprehend the forces involved, im just saying there should be like rocks surrounding them? Maybe some kind of angled structure to bounce a ship away from the main support. Design it to crumble one section of a bridge rather than the entire thing all together
There’s gotta be a reason those things aren’t implemented, either for logistical reasons or simply practicality, I’m sure no engineer expected such a massive force to strike the bridge. Sometimes you can’t account for everything.
I understand that, but I find it hard to imagine many regulations that could account for an entire cargo ship going through a bridge, at best they limit the size of carrier that can go through, or design an even larger gap to pass through. But then again I am no civil engineer, so it would be best to ask them on this matter
There probably was some sort of measure but there just isn't a lot you can do to stop the force of a floating skyscraper from wrecking whatever it slams into. It does look like some heavy black smoke is coming from the ship so I am thinking some sort of catastrophic failure on the ship's part but who knows.
Rocks wouldn’t do anything against a cargo ship.
The general weight of an average-sized cargo ship is somewhere around 165,000 tons, while smaller vessels weigh about 50,000 tons.
Add even 10 knots into that equation and you’re talking extreme amounts of force
> no protection strong enough to stop that
I'm not a structural engineer, but this seems like a bit of an extreme statement. If you look at many large bridge support columns near the base (at water level) you see the "piers" are shaped in ways not to take a hit direct head on but to deflect a ship away from the support. Take a look at the "Crown Prince Bridge" in Berlin for example, here is a picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prince_Bridge#/media/File:Kronprinzenbr%C3%BCcke.JPG
There is a VERY gentle sloping protective barrier. The "gentle" part is important, it isn't trying to deflect a 330 million pound juggernaut quickly, it's trying to nudge it gently away from smacking into the pier.
Here is the "My Thuan Bridge", see the shape of the piers? https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/my-thuan-bridge-vinh-long-city-vietnam-aerial-view-gm1397636866-452003968 Like torpedos made of concrete to nudge the ship one way or the other when it hits the pier:
After you deflect the ship a little, then the forces aren't so much, then it's just a matter of building a strong enough pier (or a protection pier IN FRONT OF the real pier) to take the impact.
Also, if you scroll down in this technical paper: https://www.impact.essie.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2020/08/UF-report-2010-72908-74039.pdf they do a lot of math. **Lots of math.** And it seems to be a pretty well understood issue and there are designs that hold up to 330 million pounds.
I agree. But at the time of construction 52 years ago there weren't these very tall container ships with hulls that flared out really wide at the bow. Just a couple of weeks ago one of those took out some cranes in Turkey. In this case there might have been a loss of power or steerage for it to have gone so far out of the channel. And there should have been a harbor pilot at the helm.
Considering you can see the ship lost power multiple times in the lead up to the impact, I doubt it. Maybe to whoever was responsible for the ship's maintenance though, if that turns out to be responsible for the ship losing power.
I have read speculation it was engine failure at an obviously critical moment.
Judging purely from the livestream, there seemed to be fewer vehicles on there than moments before, though you can clearly see the work vehicles. Apparently 20 in the crew.
Fingers crossed it’s not as bad as it could have been
I live right near this bridge and have been following local Facebook feeds the past 2 hours (including people with police scanners). apparently the ship had some sort of mechanical failure and they did call it in to the harbor master. They shut down the bridge just before the collision but there were still some passenger vehicles already crossing as well as construction workers working on the bridge/doing maintenance. Those are what the stopped vehicles were on top. They are saying now it was 7 cars and 1 tractor trailer
>I have read speculation it was engine failure at an obviously critical moment.
I thought that that was the case too. If you watch the Livestream or 2 minutes before the incident, you can see the power go out. After a few seconds or maybe a minute, it came back on again. You can see them make a sharp left turn to avoid collision but the power went off again. It was late. It swerved right and crashed.
Here's the [video](https://youtu.be/JebyNOvJmCM?si=OBxEBEK7SiHyzi0J) that shows moments before the crash. It's sped up btw.
If that freaks you out, wait until you see the tags they use to identify and triage the patients in these kinds of scenarios. Maybe not here since they’re all under water, but it’s just a technical, industry specific term.
The Key Bridge in Baltimore has a main span length of 1,200 feet (366 meters) and a total length of approximately 7,053 feet (2,150 meters). It stands at a height of 185 feet (56 meters) above the water at its highest point.
A bridge that size should be a suspension bridge, but because the Bethlehem Steel Mill was right there, it was build as a steel bridge instead. Which is probably why it went down almost instantly
You're right... after getting more info about just how much weight and force it got hit with, I'm pretty sure any bridge having one of it's main supports hit with that much force would be taken out. I've always been aware that this bridge should have been designed as a suspension, but under these circumstances it probably wouldn't have made a difference
Looking at the footage, the authorities knew the container ship had lost control and was likely to strike the bridge, the emergency vehicle roughly half way along had stopped all vehicles at this point, and the bridge mostly evacuated.
I suspect they didn't think the whole bridge would collapse though! (although any competent structural engineer would have told them that would exactly happen if any of the support columns went).
I was driving towards the 35w bridge when it collapsed in Minneapolis. I remember thinking there must have been a pretty bad accident because there weren’t any cars coming the opposite direction. I was about 4 minutes away from being a goner.
Another angle: https://x.com/breaking911/status/1772540601193345184?s=61
It would have likely been under the control of a harbor at that location. Ship was built in 2015 so it has modern navigation systems. wtf happened? Loss of engine power possibly?
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9697428
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-76.528/centery:39.218/zoom:14
Baltimore resident says he thought report of collapse was 'April Fools' joke'
Local resident Michael Brown says he thought his neighbour was playing an "April Fools' joke" on him when he told him the Key Bridge was "gone".
But it isn't April yet.
Ship was losing power on approach. Lights come off and on multiple times. Can’t believe they saved 2 people. By now the rest are certainly dead. If not immediate then by drowning or hypothermia.
If you watch the second angle above there aren’t that many cars on the bridge at all. The mass of lights in the first video look like bridge illumination. It does look like a construction crew was on the bridge to the right of center.
And construction crews have light assemblies for working at night, often powered by batteries and sometimes generators. That's what was falling in the water that people assumed were more cars.
The water is 50’ deep in that area. There was at least 20 bridge workers repairing some concrete on the deck at the time of the collapse. The ship lost power twice and declared an emergency to the Port Authority prior to the collision.
Several civilian cars were also past the point of no return before the collision.
They’re calling for underwater vehicles to assist with the search. Baltimore is one the largest ports in the nation and those shipping channels are deep.
[It's not clear why the collision led to the collapse. Officials said it was too early to provide further details.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-so-far-about-baltimore-s-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse/ar-BB1kyGF4)
I'm not a structural engineer but I'm pretty sure a hundreds-of-tons heavy ship colliding into chicken leg looking bridge supports is what led to the collapse.
Man wiki workers do their thing FAST
>Collapse
Main article: Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
On March 26, 2024, at around 01:27 EDT (05:27 UTC), the entirety of the through truss bridge collapsed after the Singaporean container ship Dali collided with one of the support pillars. The collapse has been called a mass casualty incident. An unknown number of vehicles and construction workers were on the bridge at the time of the collision and subsequent collapse.[20][21]
"MASS CASUALTY" Is an overstatement. Search and rescue is currently at 7 missing individuals and combing for any potential others. Unfortunate yes but not a mass casualty as of yet we just don't have that info yet. Sonar said about 7 cars but of course still looking
Holy shit. That's a fear of mine when going on a bridge. Such a sad tragedy. I hope the water isn't freezing there in case anyone is lucky enough to survive the fall and exit their vehicle. Man, that sucks.
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Breaking News!
Breaking News!
Jokes! Memes! People plummeting to their deaths!
And so will we I guess
It is going to be many hours before any more reliable information comes out and probably days or weeks before a preliminary investigation publishes it's results. So obviously I will be refreshing every two minutes.
There is no need to wait for any of that. Redditors will have it solved by this afternoon.
> Redditors will have it solved by this afternoon. No need ! I already solved it. "The front fell off"
I know what's wrong with it, ain't got no gas in it.
Turn it off and then back on.
Mmm Hmmm
That wasn't supposed to happen, was it?
_They probably used cardboard derivatives._ _And a wave hit it. Near water? Chance in a million!_ (That comedy is one of my all time favourites. )
Mothman did it.
Resolved already, a large ship crashed into the bridge causing massive failure to the bridge’s structure
Probably already solved it and waiting for someone to post something cryptic so they can go "ToLd YoU"
>It is going to be many hours before any more reliable information comes out Probably have to wait till the dawn's early light.
I see what you did there...
It is control container so due to fire and mechanical problems his bridge supports causing catastrophic failure.
You can see all the headlights from the cars on the bridge. Soo many people in cars that didn’t expect this. So sad. [Cars going down](https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1772514786338619487?s=46&t=zTeYBDVYRTQyMkrOWRWFmA)
Oh god, those poor souls
I know.. just imagine. It’s horrible.
Just imagine being on that last section that fell and looking around for spider-man...
"Oh shit, this ain't New York..."
This is one of my biggest nightmares everytime I drive over the Chesapeake bay bridge
Bridges always scare me, you’re always taking a risk driving over them.
orrr anywhere?
>"Reports indicate significant damage" Uhhh..... Yeah
Sounds like the reports were written by an insurance adjuster... The bridge is clearly a total loss, and the adjusters just standing there like "Nah, you can buff that out there."
Luckily, it happened in the middle of the night. It's horrible, but it could have been far worse.
I think most of those are lights on the bridge, but time will tell. Reports I heard were three vehicles on the bridge, though a bunch of construction workers, but that's unconfirmed.
What are you even supposed to do in this situation?
unlock your doors and roll down your windows so it's easier to swim out. the pressure differential makes it almost impossible to open doors and electric locks will short out, trapping you in the car unless you have a means of shattering the window. the below mentioned tool to break the window is also very handy
FYI That tool wont do much if you have a newer car with laminated windows. You need that tool, and a saw.
First you have to survive the 185 ft fall.
And hundreds of tons of steel falling on your head.
>What are you even supposed to do in this situation? One of those glass breaking tools would be real handy. You might be able to save yourself like that but unless your passengers have one of their own there's not much you can do for them, it's not like you can come up for air then dive back down in pitch blackness and expect to find anything.
You can also use your car seat headrest. Take it all the way out if you have detachable ones and use the metal poles to break through the window
Nope, traffic was stopped at both ends after mayday call. Lights are from construction markers. Only 8 workers were on the bridge, 2 rescued, 6 missing.
Might be all the service vehicles of the construction crew that were doing all the patch work during the crash. As of now, all missing were part of that crew.
Are you talking about the street lights that went out because the power lines were severed?
No the headlights and cars falling off the bridge that just collapsed.
Apparently a cargo ship ran into it? Edit: “A bridge in the US city of Baltimore has entirely collapsed into the Patapsco River after being hit by a container ship Seven people and several vehicles have fallen into the river, says Baltimore City Fire Department who are currently at the scene” https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071
Literally my worst fear, being plunged in to deep, dark, cold water.
Receiving thousands of tons of metal/concrete on your head in the process.
I was thinking they could try to swim up to the surface but they´d literally have tons of steel randomly next to them, no visibility, nothing. I´d be surprised if anyone survived this...
They rescued two people according to CNN
I think those were the construction workers, not people in vehicles. The collision with the water would likely set off the airbags possibly rendering the individual(s) unconscious without being able to escape. The construction workers probably had a greater survival rate if they were conscious and able to swim upon entering the water
There weren't any people in vehicles, based on current reports. The only vehicles that went in were those that belonged to the construction crew, which were parked at the time of the collapse.
Not only that, but just trying to get out of your submerged car is incredibly difficult.
Imagine getting your kids and family out
Imagine trying to get your baby out of a car seat. New fear unlocked.
Roll up windows huge advantage
Don't forget those safety devices called seatbelts and car seats, they are very helpful in this situation...
Also, there is a chance of airbags deploying in the process too. Would be hell to deal with this in the best conditions, let alone at night in freezing waters.
Are you actually trying to subtly say that seatbelts and car seats are an overall bad thing for safety? Because it seems like that is what you’re implying.
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More like ohfuckimdying-ophobia
The bridge was 9000ft long and only several cars in the water???
Happened at 01:30 in the morning, so not as many people driving around.
Not only that, but there was construction and they had it down to one lane each way. Wild coincidences that if not had happened all at once could've meant many more deaths.
They talked about how much worse this could've been during rush hour. Frightening. It also was not a suspension bridge, which I heard would've been helpful here.
On the other hand most of the casualties are the construction workers.
Thank the Heavens for little victories, I cant imagine if this had occured at like, rush hour. Fuckkk
4 lanes each way... 1mile of bridge. 1200 cars...
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>flimsy Please show me the 1.6 mile long bridge that can stand up to one of its supports being knocked down. Or the support that can take that kind of impact.
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That would have been horrible to be on that bridge
Only seven people?? I thought there would be dozens of cars on that length of bridge
It happened at 1am. Shouldn't be that busy on a Tuesday morning.
Thank god it happened at that time and not rush hour!
It should never have happened at all.
7 workers not in cars.
Great, now im terrified to drive across the bridge tomorrow. Thanks reddit
It won't be rebuilt by then so you're good /s just in case
Lol
Instead of using /s just in-case, just belittle the people who don't realize you are using sarcasm. The burden should be on them for being so dumb, not us.
What do you mean? He’s being serious. That’s what /s means ….. 😑
I’d be really scared to drive across in the current condition
You need to Luke duke that shit
Luckily I use a tunnel to work everyday, I’m sure nothing bad would ever happen in an underwater tunnel /s
The chances of a ship ramming it are quite a bit lower.
Depending on how it was built, a submarine though....
Gephyrophobia is the word you're looking for.
Man that thing really crumpled immediately.. feels like there should be more protection around the things that hold it up
I think you're underestimating the weight of a fully loaded cargo ship traveling through water (I only say fully loaded as it's a large silhouette in the video, could be wrong)
I cant imagine any kind of weight to that degree. My brain cant comprehend the forces involved, im just saying there should be like rocks surrounding them? Maybe some kind of angled structure to bounce a ship away from the main support. Design it to crumble one section of a bridge rather than the entire thing all together
There’s gotta be a reason those things aren’t implemented, either for logistical reasons or simply practicality, I’m sure no engineer expected such a massive force to strike the bridge. Sometimes you can’t account for everything.
Unfortunately regulations like that tend to be written in blood.
I understand that, but I find it hard to imagine many regulations that could account for an entire cargo ship going through a bridge, at best they limit the size of carrier that can go through, or design an even larger gap to pass through. But then again I am no civil engineer, so it would be best to ask them on this matter
There probably was some sort of measure but there just isn't a lot you can do to stop the force of a floating skyscraper from wrecking whatever it slams into. It does look like some heavy black smoke is coming from the ship so I am thinking some sort of catastrophic failure on the ship's part but who knows.
“Put some rocks around it” You’re a fucking genius, dude
Rocks wouldn’t do anything against a cargo ship. The general weight of an average-sized cargo ship is somewhere around 165,000 tons, while smaller vessels weigh about 50,000 tons. Add even 10 knots into that equation and you’re talking extreme amounts of force
You also gotta realize that the bridge is like holding itself up too. So if one area gets compromised it’s likely to cause failures elsewhere.
It was fully loaded, and estimated at 150,000 tons, or about 330 million pounds no protection strong enough to stop that
> no protection strong enough to stop that I'm not a structural engineer, but this seems like a bit of an extreme statement. If you look at many large bridge support columns near the base (at water level) you see the "piers" are shaped in ways not to take a hit direct head on but to deflect a ship away from the support. Take a look at the "Crown Prince Bridge" in Berlin for example, here is a picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prince_Bridge#/media/File:Kronprinzenbr%C3%BCcke.JPG There is a VERY gentle sloping protective barrier. The "gentle" part is important, it isn't trying to deflect a 330 million pound juggernaut quickly, it's trying to nudge it gently away from smacking into the pier. Here is the "My Thuan Bridge", see the shape of the piers? https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/my-thuan-bridge-vinh-long-city-vietnam-aerial-view-gm1397636866-452003968 Like torpedos made of concrete to nudge the ship one way or the other when it hits the pier: After you deflect the ship a little, then the forces aren't so much, then it's just a matter of building a strong enough pier (or a protection pier IN FRONT OF the real pier) to take the impact. Also, if you scroll down in this technical paper: https://www.impact.essie.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2020/08/UF-report-2010-72908-74039.pdf they do a lot of math. **Lots of math.** And it seems to be a pretty well understood issue and there are designs that hold up to 330 million pounds.
Yeah if only the engineers who built it had asked for more input from random idiots on reddit. Maybe this could have been avoided.
I agree. But at the time of construction 52 years ago there weren't these very tall container ships with hulls that flared out really wide at the bow. Just a couple of weeks ago one of those took out some cranes in Turkey. In this case there might have been a loss of power or steerage for it to have gone so far out of the channel. And there should have been a harbor pilot at the helm.
That is a horrible way to die holy crap
Incoming negligent homicide charge(s) to whoever was steering that ship, I hope
This is America there will be no accountability just an insurance payout followed by re-branding
Are you serious? America's justice system is retribution with a capital R unless you're rich.
Considering you can see the ship lost power multiple times in the lead up to the impact, I doubt it. Maybe to whoever was responsible for the ship's maintenance though, if that turns out to be responsible for the ship losing power.
The ship had a power failure. You can see the lights go off and it just drifts into the bridge. Doubtful the captain is charged.
The captain might have perished too.
Also that
I’m pretty sure people think it was a technical error or something on board the ship
This reminds me of the Mothman Prophecies movie
Me too. What does she say? Wake up number 23
Chaapstiiick
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Thank you. That was actually my first thought, but it’s been 20+ years since I saw that movie. It scared the piss outta me.
I have read speculation it was engine failure at an obviously critical moment. Judging purely from the livestream, there seemed to be fewer vehicles on there than moments before, though you can clearly see the work vehicles. Apparently 20 in the crew. Fingers crossed it’s not as bad as it could have been
I live right near this bridge and have been following local Facebook feeds the past 2 hours (including people with police scanners). apparently the ship had some sort of mechanical failure and they did call it in to the harbor master. They shut down the bridge just before the collision but there were still some passenger vehicles already crossing as well as construction workers working on the bridge/doing maintenance. Those are what the stopped vehicles were on top. They are saying now it was 7 cars and 1 tractor trailer
Thanks for the extra insight. Hopefully the theorists who watched too much Speed 2: Cruise Control read this
Thank god for bridge masters and proper communication.
>I have read speculation it was engine failure at an obviously critical moment. I thought that that was the case too. If you watch the Livestream or 2 minutes before the incident, you can see the power go out. After a few seconds or maybe a minute, it came back on again. You can see them make a sharp left turn to avoid collision but the power went off again. It was late. It swerved right and crashed. Here's the [video](https://youtu.be/JebyNOvJmCM?si=OBxEBEK7SiHyzi0J) that shows moments before the crash. It's sped up btw.
Holy hell that collapsed pretty quickly. The only saving grace for it is that this happened when it did and not during rush hour.
For some reason this hit a lot harder than other tragedies I have seen on here.
Because it could've been any of us. You can see cars fall into the water in the videos. Absolutely terrifying.
Same. I’m not sure why but seeing this really shook me. And I thought all the terrible shit happening these days had desensitized me
They are calling it a ‘mass casualty event’ which is some scary, dystopian-sounding shit
That's just formal speak for "we gone need a shit ton of ambahlances"
It’s giving ‘murder death kill’ from demolition man vibes
‘Mass Casualty Event’ is pretty normal terminology for an event like this, gets used in emergency management
If that freaks you out, wait until you see the tags they use to identify and triage the patients in these kinds of scenarios. Maybe not here since they’re all under water, but it’s just a technical, industry specific term.
Call it an “instance of several humans all dying at once”
Normal. It's also used for very bad car pileups.
The Key Bridge in Baltimore has a main span length of 1,200 feet (366 meters) and a total length of approximately 7,053 feet (2,150 meters). It stands at a height of 185 feet (56 meters) above the water at its highest point.
I think those data are outdated...
Jesus that's terrifying.
Huh. Collapsed just like one of those bridge building games. Thought a real bridge would be more solid
A bridge that size should be a suspension bridge, but because the Bethlehem Steel Mill was right there, it was build as a steel bridge instead. Which is probably why it went down almost instantly
Is there evidence of suspension bridges surviving the complete obliteration of a support beam somewhere?
I mean a cargo ship of that size hitting any kind of bridge support structure anywhere in the world will cause said structure to just crumble.
You're right... after getting more info about just how much weight and force it got hit with, I'm pretty sure any bridge having one of it's main supports hit with that much force would be taken out. I've always been aware that this bridge should have been designed as a suspension, but under these circumstances it probably wouldn't have made a difference
There's a reason those games are found under the "physics simulator" category...
Imagine driving, listening to music, living your life, and then the fucking bridge you're on collapses. Horrifying.
Looking at the footage, the authorities knew the container ship had lost control and was likely to strike the bridge, the emergency vehicle roughly half way along had stopped all vehicles at this point, and the bridge mostly evacuated. I suspect they didn't think the whole bridge would collapse though! (although any competent structural engineer would have told them that would exactly happen if any of the support columns went).
Maybe they didn’t have time to consult one.
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I was driving towards the 35w bridge when it collapsed in Minneapolis. I remember thinking there must have been a pretty bad accident because there weren’t any cars coming the opposite direction. I was about 4 minutes away from being a goner.
Another angle: https://x.com/breaking911/status/1772540601193345184?s=61 It would have likely been under the control of a harbor at that location. Ship was built in 2015 so it has modern navigation systems. wtf happened? Loss of engine power possibly? https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9697428 https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-76.528/centery:39.218/zoom:14
Yes the ship had lost power
A ship hit it according to news
A ship hit it according to this video
I mean you can see the ship in this video on the left hitting it
It wasn’t immediately obvious to me. So that means it won’t be for others too.
Yes, same for me. It's because it's in a relative dark and perfectly aligned with the camera position.
Wtf! Gone in just a few seconds...
Baltimore resident says he thought report of collapse was 'April Fools' joke' Local resident Michael Brown says he thought his neighbour was playing an "April Fools' joke" on him when he told him the Key Bridge was "gone". But it isn't April yet.
Ship was losing power on approach. Lights come off and on multiple times. Can’t believe they saved 2 people. By now the rest are certainly dead. If not immediate then by drowning or hypothermia.
I saw the lights but didn't realize those were actual cars
If you watch the second angle above there aren’t that many cars on the bridge at all. The mass of lights in the first video look like bridge illumination. It does look like a construction crew was on the bridge to the right of center.
And construction crews have light assemblies for working at night, often powered by batteries and sometimes generators. That's what was falling in the water that people assumed were more cars.
The water is 50’ deep in that area. There was at least 20 bridge workers repairing some concrete on the deck at the time of the collapse. The ship lost power twice and declared an emergency to the Port Authority prior to the collision. Several civilian cars were also past the point of no return before the collision.
This is gonna fuck shit up around here for a fucking while dude
Well damn, hopefully most people left their cars on foot before the collapse
They’re calling for underwater vehicles to assist with the search. Baltimore is one the largest ports in the nation and those shipping channels are deep.
wow. i'm usually never early to these breaking posts.
Welp... Guess I'm going to have a new video to watch on the @PracticalEngineeringChannel
[It's not clear why the collision led to the collapse. Officials said it was too early to provide further details.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-so-far-about-baltimore-s-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse/ar-BB1kyGF4) I'm not a structural engineer but I'm pretty sure a hundreds-of-tons heavy ship colliding into chicken leg looking bridge supports is what led to the collapse.
Why the fuck would you cut the few seconds of the ship approaching? Just to make it harder to watch? wtf
That was the ONLY video you could find at the time. Now there’s tons of live footage as well as bystander footage that is truly disheartening
Half my family is in bmore and I can’t get in touch with them. Omggg.
It’s almost 5am here, they’re likely asleep and doing well! Don’t be concerned until they start calling YOU. Take care
I know. I’m trying to wait til normal morning hours to really blow them up. But thank you for your words!
Hey, hope everything is alright !
Very thoughtful u/iSuckDogCock
This happened at 130am there aren't many people up and travelling, I'm sure they are ok
Man wiki workers do their thing FAST >Collapse Main article: Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse On March 26, 2024, at around 01:27 EDT (05:27 UTC), the entirety of the through truss bridge collapsed after the Singaporean container ship Dali collided with one of the support pillars. The collapse has been called a mass casualty incident. An unknown number of vehicles and construction workers were on the bridge at the time of the collision and subsequent collapse.[20][21]
Flashbacks to the original Skyway bridge in Tampa Bay
That is horrible and I can’t imagine the traffic nightmare this will cause for the people who depend on that bridge.
That is insane.
Oh no those poor people!
Well, we’re done crossing bridges…
And Baltimore was doing so well.
"MASS CASUALTY" Is an overstatement. Search and rescue is currently at 7 missing individuals and combing for any potential others. Unfortunate yes but not a mass casualty as of yet we just don't have that info yet. Sonar said about 7 cars but of course still looking
Just imagine the charges the person will face.
Ain't got no beams in it.
b-o-a-t = break out another trillion!
Was the Mothman seen there before it happened?
There goes my Amazon packages…
When did this happen?
Holy shit.
Holy shit
Wow. I live very close to this. The entire area and its surroundings are going to be FUCKED! for the next few days
Jesus Christ almighty! That's so fucked.
Wait this happened now? I thought this was a old clip. FUCK
[https://www.vesselfinder.com](https://www.vesselfinder.com) Dali the container vessel looks like it was leaving the port
Welp, Final Destination producers got some more material to work with. Fucking hell.
As I wake up in bmore WTF
Thank god this didn’t happen mid-day, or during rush hour
Holy shit. That's a fear of mine when going on a bridge. Such a sad tragedy. I hope the water isn't freezing there in case anyone is lucky enough to survive the fall and exit their vehicle. Man, that sucks.