Bridges Hit By Boats In 2024. A container ship struck a major bridge in baltimore early tuesday, march 26, 2024, causing it to plunge into the river below. The review identified 193 bridges that each carry 10,000 vehicles or more a day that have no protections installed around the piers planted in river and seabeds that hold up the.

22, 1993, after it derailed minutes after a barge hit a railroad bridge north of mobile, ala. Experts disagree about whether any kind of protection could realistically save a bridge from a direct hit by a container ship as massive as the dali, the vessel that took out the.