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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does police get there so quickly to stop traffic? They just happened to be near?[/quote]

The ship radioed the harbor after the first power failure to let them know the ship might impact. There was a construction crew on the bridge working on potholes and the harbor control was able to get them to move trucks to either end to block traffic so traffic on the bridge, which was already light due to the hour, could be stopped. Police showed up after it happened.

Had this happened at 4pm, it would have been a very different story. [/quote]

Are you sure? The news stories are saying police blocked traffic. And the audio recordings seem to be from police scanners.[/quote]

DP but you are correct. Not sure how the story about the construction crew stopping traffic got started. I don't believe they were even aware of what was going.  :(

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-traffic-cars-on-bridg

[quote]Moments later, a police dispatcher put out a call asking officers to stop all traffic on Interstate 695, according to Maryland Transportation Authority first responder radio traffic obtained from the Broadcastify.com archive by the Associated Press.[/quote]

[quote]A construction crew was working on the bridge at the time of the collapse. One officer who stopped traffic radioed that he was going to drive onto the bridge to alert the construction workers. But seconds later, a frantic officer said: "The whole bridge just fell down. Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed."
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