Maybe but unlikely. Collisions happen all too often, usually due to a failure to maintain a proper watch, serious miscalculation of relative speed and bearing or failure to take proper and effective a avoidance.
The destroyer was struck on her starboard side, her green sector. She may have been the “give way” vessel.
Site of ship collision gets heavy traffic
Seems to me the area would make captains even more vigilant.
This is extremely concerning they let any ship let alone a 30K ton cargo ship get that close and hit her. In fact if I were Mattis I’d be giving a bunch of rear admirals the third degree. This is some Obama/Clinton era incompetence. We just handed Iran a playbook on how to exploit our defenses.