A terrible crash that could have been worse

I never realised that a bridge would collapse so thoroughly and quickly from a ship hitting it. While this was a horrible accident, it makes you think about how vulnerable bridges would be to deliberate attacks.

The loss of life is only six at this stage and could have been so much worse. Kudos to local authorities who managed to stop most traffic entering the bridge when they were alerted to the out of control ship. If this had happened at rush hour, the death toll could have been in the hundreds.

US $80 billion of trade travels in the now blocked waterway and the cost off rebuilding the bridge which the US Federal Government has pledged to fund) will be massive.