I once read an article somewhere about unsafe bridges in America, this was probably in the '80's, maybe 90's, and the Francis Scott Key Bridge was named as one of the worst. I crossed it pretty regularly at the time because we loaded at Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point all the time. I thought about that article every time I crossed that bridge, and still do.
Speaking of bridges, I went to Boston the night the Mianus River bridge collapsed in Greenwich, Connecticut but I went up 81 and 84 that night instead of up 95. I started hearing about it on the CB when I was around Newburgh, N.Y. best I can remember. Two of Dick Harris' trucks- Harris Trucking, out of Lynchburg- were running together that night, and the first one made it across and the bridge fell before the second one crossed. He got stopped OK, but still it was a close call,eh?
Which reminds me of the late Oliver Davis, a.k.a. "shoeshine boy". We were running up rt. 35 together in the 80's and I asked him if he had ever crossed the old bridge from Point Pleasant, W.V. to Gallipolis, Oh. that fell in 1968. He said "$#!t, I was two trucks from getting on that son of a bitch when it fell!"