‘If it was 1 minute later, I probably wouldn’t be here’: Man among last people to cross Key Bridge

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JOINS US LIVE FROM DUNDALK. AND TORI, YOU SPOKE WITH THAT MAN WHO SAYS THAT HE’S STILL IN SHOCK, UNDERSTANDABLY RIGHT. KHIREE YOU CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE LARRY DESANTIS TELLING ME THAT HE’S STILL TRYING TO PROCESS EVERYTHING, KNOWING THAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO CROSS THE KEY BRIDGE AS HE WAS COMING TO WORK IN DUNDALK EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. IF I WAS ONE MINUTE LATER, I PROBABLY WOULDN’T BE HERE NOW. STILL PROCESSING LARRY DESANTIS SAYS HE LEFT FROM HIS JOB IN PASADENA AROUND 1:18 A.M., ROUGHLY TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE KEY BRIDGE COLLAPSED TUESDAY MORNING TO HEAD TO A SECOND JOB AT HERMAN’S BAKERY IN DUNDALK. WHEN I WAS GETTING ON, THERE WAS A TRACTOR TRAILER, A TRACTOR TRAILER, BUT IT ONLY HAD A TRACTOR, NOT THE TRAILER PART OF IT. I GOT OUT IN FRONT OF HIM OR WHATEVER, AND WE BOTH GOT ON THE BRIDGE. LARRY SAYS HE WAS GOING AROUND 45MPH BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION. HE SAYS HE SAW CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ONCE HE GOT OVER THE TOP PART OF THE BRIDGE. THERE WAS A POLICE CAR. WHEN I WENT BY RIGHT BEFORE THE TOLL BRIDGE. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THEY KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. SO HE WAS WAITING TO GET THE WORD TO STOP THE TRAFFIC. SO I GUESS I WAS LIKE THE LAST ONE THAT WENT THROUGH. AND ONCE HE GOT OFF THE BRIDGE, HE DIDN’T SEE OR HEAR THE COLLAPSE. THE ONLY REASON HE KNEW IS BECAUSE ONE OF HIS COWORKERS CALLED HIM. WHILE I’M SITTING AT THE LIGHT, THE WOMAN FROM HERE CALLED ME AND SAID, WHERE ARE YOU AT? BECAUSE SHE KNEW I WAS, YOU KNOW, SHE SAID, DID YOU GO HOME OR YOU? I SAID, NO, I JUST WENT OVER THE BRIDGE. SHE SAID, WELL, IT JUST COLLAPSED. HE SAYS HE’S STILL IN SHOCK, ESPECIALLY KNOWING SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION CREW HE PASSED ON THE BRIDGE DIED IN THE COLLAPSE. I KNOW, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND THEY STILL HAVEN’T FOUND SOME OF THEM. IT’S SAD. IT REALLY IS. AND I MEAN, THEY’RE DOING THEIR JOB AND NOW COUNTING HIS BLESSINGS, SAYING HE’S GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE. THE GUY I WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, WE LEAVE. WE LEFT AT THE SAME TIME. IF WE HAD STOPPED AND TALKED FOR A MINUTE, WHICH WE DO A LOT OF TIMES, BUT WE BOTH HAD OTHER JOBS TO GO TO, SO WE JUST LEFT. JUST CRAZY TIMING. DEFINITELY ON LARRY’S SIDE THERE. HE TELLS ME HE’S BEEN GETTING A LOT OF CALLS ALL WEEK BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNEW THAT HE USED THAT BRIDGE ALMOST DAILY TO GET TO AND FROM HIS FIRST AND SECOND JOB LIVE TONIGHT FROM DUNDALK. I’

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