In todays news...

[KungFooBob]

I'm glad I'm not a commuter in Baltimore this morning...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-u ... a-68663071

[MingtheMerciless]

How the fook do you smash into a bridge , it’s not like it’s a motorcycle!

[KungFooBob]

I guess them big container ships take some stopping/turning if you get it wrong?

Tho' i'd expect that they'd be using a local pilot to navigate the river?

[cheb]

I guess them big container ships take some stopping/turning if you get it wrong?

Tho' i'd expect that they'd be using a local pilot to navigate the river?

One way is to use the stated lat/long of a buoy as a waypoint on your plotter. The maintenance boats do try to drop them right on the spot.

The more usual method is just being pissed or absent from the bridge.

[MingtheMerciless]

Bridge had working lights on it (you can see it in the video). It’s like it was aimed at the pier/column! You can also see some maintenance vehicles parked on the bridge .

[KungFooBob]

Latest update from the Beeb says there where two pilots onboard!

[Mr. Dazzle]

The columns are supposed to be able to take the impact of a ship anyway...for now very obvious reasons.

[cheb]

Maybe the pilots were arguing about who had control? There's apocryphal tales about that. IIRC one involving towing a salvaged wreck from Scapa Flow down the Forth, the tug aiming for one side of a bridge support and the towed wreck trying to go the other side..

Hythe pier was driven into a few years back.

[Yambo]

Wow! That's a bit like hitting the only standing tree in a desert.

[cheb]

Wow! That's a bit like hitting the only standing tree in a desert.

Been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T ... %A9r%C3%A9

[JackyJoll]

there were two pilots onboard!

Ask two experts; get three different answers.

[mangocrazy]

Two-thirds of accidents occur within 5 miles of home...

[JackyJoll]

Two-thirds of accidents occur within 5 miles of home...

That’s it- we’re moving!

[Horse]

Two-thirds of accidents occur within 5 miles of home...

That’s it- we’re moving!

A moving target is just more of a challenge.

[Saga Lout]

Two-thirds of accidents occur within 5 miles of home...

97% of all statistics on the internet are made up.

Even if that statistic is correct, it doesn't tell us anything without context. How much of our driving is done within 5 miles of home? If it's more than two thirds then we're safer within that 5 mile bubble.

[KungFooBob]

There's a headline you don't see everyday...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68664644

[Horse]

I guess them big container ships take some stopping/turning if you get it wrong?

Seems that the ship was losing power prior to the collision.

[Skub]

For the scale of destruction,it's a miracle there wasn't a big loss of life.

[mangocrazy]

Two-thirds of accidents occur within 5 miles of home...

97% of all statistics on the internet are made up.

Even if that statistic is correct, it doesn't tell us anything without context. How much of our driving is done within 5 miles of home? If it's more than two thirds then we're safer within that 5 mile bubble.

Maybe, but I didn't make it up; What Car did the fabricating, not me guv...

https://www.whatcar.com/news/most-crash ... home/n5693

And drawing on a shockingly small sample size (one, me) the last accident I had was no more than half a mile from home...

[Taipan]

Cant remember who said it and its not verbatim, but 85% of scientific studies are in favour of the funding body...