It's also the type of bridge, and the sheer size of that ship...
I live in a city with a massive concrete box girder bridge. When a ship probably about half that size (and I imagine, much less mass) hit a similar pylon, in the mid-70s, only two sections of it came down.
Admittedly, it sank the ship, and killed many more people, but then they just rebuilt those sections, left one less pylon, and ta-dah, she's still standing, 50 years later, so...
You're not wrong that bridge design plays a part.
However the bridge in question has massive concrete protections around the base of its pylons. Whether those were in place in 1975, I do not know (or whether they are later additions), but... It didn't seem to stop what happened.
But regardless, yeah, it's just interesting to see the same sort of situation play out here, except with an entirely different result...
Water is like, 5 times deeper, here, though. I'm not sure if that played a part, too...
It's also the type of bridge, and the sheer size of that ship...
I live in a city with a massive concrete box girder bridge. When a ship probably about half that size (and I imagine, much less mass) hit a similar pylon, in the mid-70s, only two sections of it came down.
Admittedly, it sank the ship, and killed many more people, but then they just rebuilt those sections, left one less pylon, and ta-dah, she's still standing, 50 years later, so...
You're not wrong that bridge design plays a part.
However the bridge in question has massive concrete protections around the base of its pylons. Whether those were in place in 1975, I do not know (or whether they are later additions), but... It didn't seem to stop what happened.
But regardless, yeah, it's just interesting to see the same sort of situation play out here, except with an entirely different result...
Water is like, 5 times deeper, here, though. I'm not sure if that played a part, too...