[Kenny Bania]

Has happened before:

Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse - 1980

[Baldwin77]

This bridge was literally in our back yard when we lived in Florida for 40 years. They rebuilt the Skyway bridge with concrete barriers to keep ships from hitting it again. Photo shows the concrete barriers.

[Vaquero]

44 years later and one would think protective concrete piers would have been installed on all bridges in areas where huge ships pass under