Lax Regulations and Poor Safety Planning Set Stage for Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Decades of regulation failures and port policies prioritizing profits over safety led to the disaster in Baltimore.

The recent, horrifying collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26 was a tragic and very preventable tragedy with multiple sources of political responsibility that lay beyond the problems of the cargo ship’s malfunctioning electrical system. Despite the ship sending out a mayday signal when it lost power, it collided minutes later into the bridge. The accident led to...

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