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Already roughly 75 edits since the collapse.
It makes me wonder what goes through someone's head when one sees a mass casualty event like this, and your first instinct is to rush to Wikipedia to change the article to past tense ('was' a bridge).
Was anyone driving across? I didn't notice car headlights on the bridge, but... edit: The guardian clip says vehicles were on the bridge.
It was hit by a container ship https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/ship-hits-baltimore-ke... That's gonna be expensive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/26/baltimo...
The footage looks absolutely crazy - I hope people are safe.
Judging by the footage with the bridge being over water and the temperature in Baltimore near freezing, I would guess no they are not. The outcome of this is going to be very unpleasant.
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What impressed me was that it looks like openstreetmap shows the bridge as down already. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/39.2144/-76.5279
Looks up there to me [1]. If you're referring to the red colour, zoom out - all the big highways are that colour. [1] https://imgur.com/LymzwMU
It looked like this to me.
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I would want to first investigate how it happened and take care of the victims and their families. Then I would start planning the shiny new thing.
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The captain was disabled or the bridge? I dont understand how you set a course through a bridge like that
A course is set through the middle, side thrusters, rudders, and|or engines fail or falter, and current drifts the ship into the bridge pylon. Ships in water tend to move and keep moving, engines and thrusters work to vector that motion into a desired direction - when things fail motion doesn't cease and courses aren't maintained.
Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!
Was anyone driving across? I didn't notice car headlights on the bridge, but... edit: The guardian clip says vehicles were on the bridge.
