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Baker commuting over Baltimore bridge did not hear crash because of loud radio

Source: AP

A Baltimore baker who drove over the Francis Scott Key Bridge seconds before its collapse, says he had been blissfully unaware of the catastrophe until receiving a call from a panicked co-worker.

Larry Desantis told the that despite being in the immediate vicinity he had not heard the container

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