It was his usual commute.
Larry DeSantis was headed to his second job at Herman’s Bakery in the Baltimore area when he noticed something strange – there was no traffic behind him.
“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.”
DeSantis didn’t even know the bridge had collapsed until his first job called to check on him.
“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.’”
A few minutes later and DeSantis probably would have been thrown off the bridge at the ship collided with a support pillar.
“I’ve been very tired this week because of the amount of hours I’ve been working, but it makes you think a lot, it really does,” he said. “I just can’t believe it happened. I consider myself very lucky.”