Larry DeSantis narrowly cheated death last week when he crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge minutes before its catastrophic collapse
A man who crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge mere moments before it collapsed into the Patapsco River said he considers himself lucky to be alive.
“I really didn’t even see the ship at all. I just focused on what was right in front of me.” However, the obvious lack of vehicles on the bridge got the baker thinking as he recalled: "It was an eerie feeling because there were no vehicles at all."“There was one other vehicle behind me,” he said. “It was a tractor, but he didn’t have a trailer because I actually got in front of him right as we started to go over the bridge.
Six workers were filling potholes on the bridge, two of their bodies were recovered from the wreckage last week and the other four are missing but presumed dead. Debris removal began over the weekend after searches for the bodies of those still missing were called off as officials said vehicles in the water were too encased in concrete and debris.
“Someone called me like maybe two minutes later and said, ‘Where are you at?’ That was my other job calling,” he said. “I said I just went over the bridge, and they said, ‘Well, you know, the bridge just collapsed.’”
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