Baltimore bridge collapse

[Pupp]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68...

This doesn’t look good

[tight fart]

A container ship has struck a bridge in Baltimore causing it to collapse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68...

[Alickadoo]

tight fart said:

A container ship has struck a bridge in Baltimore causing it to collapse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071

[tight fart]

X has footage of the strike and collapse!

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/177251478633861948...

Edited by tight fart on Tuesday 26th March 07:38

[essayer]

Mental
https://x.com/bnonews/status/1772515766929097088

[Dan_1981]

essayer said:

Mental
https://x.com/bnonews/status/1772515766929097088

Crikey.

[Pupp]

Currently saying ‘no casualties reported’ but seven in the water… will be incredible if no-one came to grief in that; fingers crossed.

[PT1984]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

[LimaDelta]

Marine Traffic link

[Bill]

st! Thankfully at 1.30am, it'll be a miracle if anyone from the bridge survives that.

[LimaDelta]

Vessel details

[croyde]

There were cars and trucks that just crossed seconds before on that live feed

The ship appears to lose all it's lighting about 5 minutes before impact, just becomes a dark mass. The lights come on again but too late.

Complete loss of power perhaps?

[LimaDelta]

croyde said:

There were cars and trucks that just crossed seconds before on that live feed

The ship appears to lose all it's lighting about 5 minutes before impact, just becomes a dark mass. The lights come on again but too late.

Complete loss of power perhaps?

Could be any number of things, but blackout and resulting temporary loss of steering possible. Wind was light north-easterly at the time, which would push the vessel towards the south pile.

[tight fart]

Also looked like a lot of flashing lights on the bridge suggesting maintenance work going on, that’s a lot of people working at the time.

[Pupp]

Perhaps inevitably, now being classed as a ‘mass casualty event’ by the Baltimore FD, according to Beeb update

[Kowalski655]

Been saying just now 20 people in the water

[Don Veloci]

PT1984 said:

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

Giving that a little credit!

[croyde]

The water must be freezing. Poor sods

[essayer]

Full vid - looks like the ship was losing power repeatedly and drifting

https://x.com/truth68201238/status/177253444159373...

[LivLL]

That water will be pretty cold this time of year I'd imagine if anyone has been lucky enough to survive the fall. Mail is reporting there were 20 construction workers on the bridge also.