President Joe Biden promised a fast reconstruction, as authorities suspended the search for six workers missing after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed.
A construction crew was on the bridge and two people were initially rescued after its collapse.Hours after a giant cargo ship collided into a bridge near her home in the US city of Baltimore, Jen Wolf was standing at a petrol station a few kilometres from the crash site, shaking her head in disbelief.
The construction workers repairing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge had not been so lucky, losing their lives in what Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott described as an “unthinkable tragedy”. The decision came as the sun set over Baltimore, as dozens of people lined up along Interstate 695 to see what remained of the bridge named after Francis Scott Key, the man who wrote the US national anthem,Since it was in built in 1977, the 2.5-kilometre arterial had become emblematic of Baltimore’s identity as a working class port city.
According to authorities, the ship was moving at about eight knots before the collision, which is a typical speed for vessels travelling in the area. At 1.24am, the ship’s lights flickered, and at 1.26am the ship looked as though it was starting to change course. A few minutes later it crashed into the bridge.
Ben Schafer, a professor of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, estimated it could take at least 10 to 15 years to rebuild the bridge.
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