[TheHypnotist]

The trajectory of the ship seemed near perfect right up until just before the bridge where I suspect it experience it's mechanical issue.

[KineticLensman]

Interestingly, a surprising number of ship-ship collisions occur due to an unnecessary last minute evasive-action manoeuvre between ships that weren't actually on a collision course in the first place. There's a whole section devoted to this in the outstanding book 'Normal Accidents' by Charles Perrow.