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Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead

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127 points teleforce | 1 comments | 18 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.396s | source
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codr7 ◴[18 May 25 07:06 UTC] No.44019556[source]▶
I've only ever heard of two ships hitting bridges; both recently, both in the US, both lost power and drifted into the bridge.

At least this bridge fall like a house of cards, I guess because the masts broke first.

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1. Brybry ◴[18 May 25 10:56 UTC] No.44020425[source]▶
Barges (and other watercraft) collide with stationary objects (which includes bridges) monthly, it's just not usually in the national news and doesn't usually cause a lot of damage.

For example, from 2001 to 2017 there were 1020 medium/high severity recorded "allision" incidents by just towing vessels/barges. That's over 5 times a month. [1]

10%+ of recreational watercraft accidents are with fixed objects. [2][3]

There were 18 bridge collapses (in the US) due to vessel collisions over 53 years (1960 to 2013), so averaging roughly one bridge collapse every 3 years. [4]

[1] https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC... [page 9, chart 9]

[2] https://www.tuscaloosa.com/__aws/media/6553702_bridge-strike...

[3] https://www.uscgboating.org/library/accident-statistics/Recr... [page 7]

[4] https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/WBES/2013/Session9/9C_3...

[5] https://www.scribd.com/document/550271478/SHIP-AND-BARGE-COL...