Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are assessing the country's bridges to determine the likelihood of another disaster like the one that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Work continues to remove the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. BALTIMORE — Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are assessing the country’s bridges to determine the likelihood of another disaster like the one that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The steel span crumbled in an instant after the container ship Dali lost power and crashed into one of its supporting columns shortly after leaving Baltimore’s port on March 26. Six members of a roadwork crew plunged to their deaths. The researchers will examine whether other bridges are similarly vulnerable by building models to determine the probability of a ship deviating from course and causing a catastrophe in or around major ports.
The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal oversight agency that is investigating the collapse, said in its preliminary report that the Dali sailed right past a protective concrete piling — also known as a dolphin — before bringing down the bridge. Two tugboats guided the Dali out of Baltimore’s port, but they peeled off once it entered the main shipping channel in accordance with normal practice, according to the preliminary report. Experts have questioned whether a longer tugboat escort could have kept the wayward ship on course and averted disaster.
The collapse halted most maritime traffic through the port for several weeks and disrupted East Coast trucking routes.
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