Mayor says rescue efforts are under way after vessel crashed into Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending vehicles into water

A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water.

At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X.

“All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,” the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.

Matthew West, a petty officer first class for the coastguard in Baltimore, told the New York Times that the coastguard received a report of an impact at 1.27am ET. West said the Dali, a 948ft (29 metres) Singapore-flagged cargo ship, had hit the bridge, which is part of Interstate 695.

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
    4010·
    8 months ago

    There was a live-stream where you can scrub to the minute where the bridge is gone (1:28:43 by the time-stamp inside of the video, not the YT timestamp). The Ship apparently lost all the lights 2-3 times shortly before impact. Maybe it was a problem with that. We also noticed a lot of hacking activities in the last weeks. Maybe it was that.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        332·
        8 months ago

        Idk I’m going with space lasers and you can’t convince me otherwise.

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
        27·
        8 months ago

        A guy at work showed me the footage on his phone. Whatever shit news site he was pulling from had the headline, “DEI focus by The transportation department under Pete buttigiege results in bridge collapse”.

        They didn’t even wait half a day to start lying.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        13·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, not everything bad that happens is intentional despite how much some people want that to be the case.

    • Pretzilla@lemmy.world
      111·
      8 months ago

      Here’s a quick take on the crash. Informed and conspiracy free, based upon the video:

      • Ship power cut off and the pilot panicked and threw engines into reverse (as seen by engine exhaust)
      • ‘Prop walk’, which happen when you operate a propeller in reverse, turned the ship starboard into the bridge support

      Some speculation in there about the state of mind of the pilot in trying to explain their actions. Hopefully the NTSB report will shed more light on things. The state of the steering particularly.