A day after a preliminary report revealed new details about what happened in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a vessel strike, members of Congress peppered officials behind the federal response with questions about the ship’s power outage, the safety of other bridges and how to pay for a new bridge. How might the ship’s power problems have been avoided? How prepared for massive ships was this bridge and how prepared are others across the country?
5 takeaways from congressional hearing on Key Bridge collapse, response
May 16, 2024