Maryland's Key Bridge collapses after it was struck by a container ship

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I don't understand how they could get the cars off but not these workers.

Tough to say with the info we have. They probably just stopped inbound traffic on both sides and let all the vehicles clear off. The bridge is about 1.5 miles long, so for all we know, this might have happened so quickly that they didn't realize that the construction crews were out there.