Baltimore bridge survivor describes horror of collapse

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He said he prepared for death.

"I thanked God for the family he gave me. I asked him to take care of my wife and kids. And I asked for forgiveness," he said in an interview in Spanish.

 

 

The DOJ is suing for $100M for the cost of the emergency response, plus punitive damages. Maryland is expected to sue for the cost to rebuild. Families of 3 of the people who died announced intent to sue.

The owning companies, Grace Ocean Ltd and Synergy Marine Group, say their liability should be limited to $44M.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/...8162&user_id=5b703f8ccf593e7fcff53e52a0a8fc2f

 

The DOJ is suing for $100M for the cost of the emergency response, plus punitive damages. Maryland is expected to sue for the cost to rebuild. Families of 3 of the people who died announced intent to sue.

The owning companies, Grace Ocean Ltd and Synergy Marine Group, say their liability should be limited to $44M.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/...8162&user_id=5b703f8ccf593e7fcff53e52a0a8fc2f

So what's the liability of the MTA?

For 47 years, Maryland inspectors and safety officials had spent many thousands of hours and millions of dollars inspecting, prodding and protecting the 9,090-foot-long bridge, trying to keep it strong amid the onslaught of time, weather and vehicles. But state officials worried about terrorism had focused on bombs and bad guys in small boats, not an errant 95,000-gross-ton container ship, according to a former official with the Maryland Transportation Authority, the independent agency that runs the Key Bridge and the state’s other tolled bridges, highways and tunnels, and a former senior state transportation official.

 

That guy loose wire really gets around.

 

That guy loose wire really gets around.

Haven't heard from him since at least the accident. Must be in hiding.

Come to think of it, I've never seen him and Mayhem in the same room together. Hmmmmm.

 

Haven't heard from him since at least the accident. Must be in hiding.

Come to think of it, I've never seen him and Mayhem in the same room together. Hmmmmm.

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Brothers.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/mediaviewer/rm1547222785/

 

Reviving this thread because I found a video from the NTSB describing the cause of the Dali's power failure.