Allision
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March when the container ship Dali ran into it, causing the death of six construction workers, the destruction of a portion of Interstate 695, and a months-long halt to port operations. News sources referred to the event as a collision but maritime publications mostly used allision instead. The difference is this: allision occurs when a ship runs into a stationary object, while collision, according to some traditional definitions, refers only to contact between two moving objects. (As recently as 2015 the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage insisted that “only two objects in motion can collide.”) However, collision and collide are commonly used to refer to such matters as a ship striking a bridge, or any object striking a stationary object, and we consider the use of collision in this context appropriate and correct.
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