First and foremost, our sincere prayers are with the families of the victims of this event. And not for one second did we ever doubt that our first responders would turn their backs on an emergency. They are like buffalo – they face the storm straight on.
However, we are a bit, shall we say suspicious, around a claim that Gov Wes Moore made in his press conference today. In the press conference, Wes Moore said that they were able to shut down the bridge in time to save many potential citizens from being caught on it prior to it being struck. The timeline and tape make this a difficult claim to substantiate without additional information being released.
Officials were able to stop the flow of traffic onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore before a massive cargo ship crashed into a support column, helping to save lives in the disaster, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said. https://t.co/pqiyX0oxOs
— ABC News (@ABC) March 26, 2024
The best video currently on the internet showing the lead up and destruction of the bridge is below.
A solid quick breakdown of the apparent multiple power failures on the ‘Dali’ ahead of impact with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD.
I’m looking to credit whoever created this. (Dm) pic.twitter.com/NV1zSQHYkU
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) March 26, 2024
If you watch the video you will notice that 39 seconds in, a car is exactly halfway across the bridge.
Roughly 6 seconds later the ship struck the bridge and caused its immediate collapse.
At normal speeds, it takes roughly 1 min to cross over the bridge, or 30 seconds to make it halfway.
This means that in alert would have been sent and the bridge simultaneously shut down 9 seconds into the video. This would have allowed this car onto the bridge, and halfway across it at the 39 second mark. The first power loss that the video shows is 11 seconds into the video.
So the question is: when did authorities first receive an alert that the ship had lost control and could crash into the bridge? Was it in advance of the first videoed power loss? Or when did the bridge actually get shut down?
