It's a natural emotional reaction to frame it that way. However, given that the loss of control has happened at all, the "What are the odds" question is, "What are the odds of a ship, out of control in a busy sea lane, near a multi span bridge, hitting nothing?"
Put more simply, we would also have heard of the incident, which would have been newsworthy, if it had hit any one one of the other bridge piers, or a passenger vessel, or another cargo ship, or a fishing vessel, or a rocky shoal, or ruptured its fuel tank and polluted the water, etc. We seldom hear of the incidents, errors, cock ups and break downs that do not result in disaster.
A few years ago, in the UK (Lincolnshire if I recall correctly) a tired driver fell asleep at the wheel, crashed, went down into as railway cutting, and his vehicle was hit by a train, derailing it. Many people died.
If he had fallen asleep 10 seconds earlier or later, he would not have gone onto the railway line. If he had gone onto the railway line 10 minutes earlier, perhaps they would have been able to slow down or stop the train. If he had been going a tad slower, perhaps he would not have completely blocked the railway line. And so on.
Many many drivers fall asleep at the wheel (I write as a former claims investigator) and simply go off the road into a ditch, or hedge, or field, or parked car, or wall, and their story never makes the news.