Disaster "Mass casualty incident" declared after Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

No article yet as this just happened, but could be big. One of the largest bridges in the world according to Wikipedia.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/breaking-news-key-bridge-collapsed

 

[dustbuster]

t’s a faggot bridge designed to look nice

Cantilevered bridges are designed to function.
They are the most ass ugly bridges ever designed.

Where will they redirect cruises to disembark right now?

Florida has the facilities.
NYC has the geographic location.

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

Jesus fucking Christ, man. Jokes aside, nobody fucking deserves to die like this. Fucking horrendous.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Possible crew picture. Grabbed off /pol/ so take with grain of salt.

 

[glass_houses]

Are bridges supposed to just annihilate themselves when a support is clipped? Wouldn't they be designs for only a segment to fall off?

The bridge was built in 1977. Even if it were the sturdiest bridge in the history of modern construction when it was erected, the combination of aging infrastructure combined with a ship that massive, there would have been no chance of avoiding catastrophic damage.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

There was at least one tractor trailer on the bridge that went in.

I hate that the BBC is the source with the best updates on this story, everyone else is literally copying their homework and screenshots.
Like, I get that everyone was asleep when this went down, but you'd think every newsroom on the eastern seaboard would be waking up their desk jockeys to get into the studio nowish.

They are. Still does not stop the BBC from having the most news on it when they start.

 

[Toy Soldier]

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there's no way that's a picture of the key bridge, it's still dark.

 

[Jimbobaggins]

The cruise line part is interesting. Where will they redirect cruises to disembark right now?

Luckily there isn't too many cruises calling from Baltimore. I suppose they could go to any other port on the east coast and just bus them

 

[glass_houses]

Looking at that track, they were on a straight course that would've cleared the bridge. Making that turn put them straight into that support. Yeah, big time fuck up on the captain's part.

The ship should/would have been under the control of a harbour pilot, not the captain at that point.

 

[ZipDisk]

there's no way that's a picture of the key bridge, it's still dark.

The light bloom is pretty intense there.

I went on google maps, the traffic results are... interesting. "Closed until 11 AM" "Closed until December 2024" "Closed until December 2025"

 

[trash cat]

You can see the cars going into the water on this video.

It's definitely the Baltimore key bridge. I recognize it in the vid below.

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"The vessel that caused the collapse could be the Singaporean-flagged container ship Dali, Sky News reported, citing data from MarineTraffic website."

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[Pierre D'Olnique]

there's no way that's a picture of the key bridge, it's still dark.

You sure? Looks like it should be dawning.

You can see the cars going into the water on this video.

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Oh so the lights on the right were actually cars. Well, shit. There goes the hope of a zero death toll.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

I think this one has the ship's comms overlayed onto the video

 

[Toy Soldier]

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You sure? Looks like it should be dawning.

nigger it is pitch black right now, background looks wrong too.

 

[Summer of George]

there's no way that's a picture of the key bridge, it's still dark.

It sure looks like it is, they just cranked the Photoshop up to 11. Plus there is a ton of backlight the photog could've used coming off the port itself.

 

[ZipDisk]

185 ft, their luck isn't great.

 

[dustbuster]

You can see the cars going into the water on this video.

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Water causes tremendous pressure differentials making it impossible to open car doors.
If these people have a tool to shatter the windows and can swim, they may survive, if not, they have to wait for the car to flood, then attempt to get out before it sinks too low.
If you have to cross bridges regularly, keep a center-punch in easy grabbing distance so you can shatter your windows to escape in a situation like this.

 

[glass_houses]

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You sure? Looks like it should be dawning.

Also digital apps to fuck around with contrast and lighting and all that shit.

 

[Kheapathic]

If the ship was carrying a bunch of toxic chemicals, and some weird multi-platform structure get erected. I'm just gonna say Kojima really can see the future.

 

[Jimbobaggins]

Seems this isnt the first time this ship has had a problem with hitting something. It collided against the edge of a wall before

 

[glass_houses]

Water causes tremendous pressure differentials making it impossible to open car doors.
If these people have a tool to shatter the windows and can swim, they may survive, if not, they have to wait for the car to flood, then attempt to get out before it sinks too low.
If you have to cross bridges regularly, keep a center-punch in easy grabbing distance so you can shatter your windows to escape in a situation like this.

If the people in the cars managed to get out, they had better be good cold water swimmers. According to Google, the water temp is 9C.