All seven bridges supported by vulnerable concrete island towers, called piers. Baltimore s Francis Scott Key was destroyed by a mega-ship collision with a pier
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On Tuesday the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore crumbled into the water after being struck by a ship, much like bridges in Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, which met the same fate.
No bridge can withstand millions of pound of force from a strike, as with the cargo ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge. But structures can help protect it. Unfortunately none were in place.