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@Oliver Schick
Here are some numbers on the old lorry-hits-bridge problem. As Fox has reminded us, many bridges are merely structures and not buildings (although in German, engineers refer to bridges as "Bauwerke" (one of the main words for buildings, the other being "Gebäude")), as I recently saw while following the saga of the Salzbachtalbrücke in Wiesbaden, which near-collapsed and has only just been demolished):
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/16/lorries-hitting-railway-bridges-uk-wise-up-size-up-campaign
Anyone who's ridden the Dunwich Dynamo to the end will be familiar with the Coddenham Road bridge in Needham Market, which is so low that it appears the Google car couldn't fit under it:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.1501913,1.0587772,3a,86.3y,48.85h,84.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1uiEcpWIxLgkW2zlossiMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I suspect the main reason why it gets hit so often is because it's between two bends and drivers unfamiliar with it see it too late.