My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people’s lives, as usual), but I’d still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren’t harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    ‘Mass casualty incident’ as US bridge hit by ship collapses into river

    • A bridge in the US city of Baltimore has entirely collapsed into the Patapsco River after being hit by a container ship
    • Up to 20 people and several vehicles have fallen into the river, says Baltimore City Fire Department who are currently at the scene
    • The fire department says a large vessel hit a column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge at around 01:30 ET (05:30 GMT)
    • Videos on social media appear to show the bridge entirely descending into the water
    • A number of casualties have been reported and there is now a large multi-agency rescue and recovery operation under way