Speaking out for the first time since the catastrophic bridge collapse in March, Julio Cervantes Suarez describes to NBC News’ Tom Llamas his fight to survive after he was thrown from the Francis Scott Key Bridge while working.
BALTIMORE — Julio Cervantes Suarez endured the unthinkable when a 100,000-plus ton cargo ship crashed into the bridge he was working on, collapsing the critical structure and sending him tumbling into the dark, unforgiving waters below. Cervantes Suarez, 37, was one of seven construction workers who had been fixing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it went crumbling down into the Patapsco River in the early morning hours of March 26.
He said justice to him would be for all of those responsible to “pay for the damage they have done. Because I know that money is not going to buy a hug from a father or a son.” He said he sees the children of his brother-in-law, Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, “and I see how much they miss their dad.” He sees how much his sister-in-law misses her husband. Cervantes Suarez said the Dali cargo ship “destroyed six families.
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