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At 7:33 a.m. on May 9, 1980, the 606-foot Summit Venture crashed into the western span of the bridge during a storm.
The new "Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge" was rebuilt seven years later and features new safety bumpers called "dolphin" ...
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - May 9, 1980 is a day that will always be remembered with great sadness along the Suncoast. Especially for those who saw the aftermath first-hand.
“I said a soft prayer for everybody I handled; I apologized for the rough treatment that I was going to give them, that I ...
Skyway Bridge disaster remains one of the most dramatic structural collapses in U.S. history. Amid a blinding storm, the ...
One person was injured after a five-car crash on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Thursday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol said that around 6:45 a.m., a 31-year-old man was driving a tractor-trailer ...
A crash caused major traffic delays on the northbound side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on Thursday morning. Troopers say a tractor-trailer hit two vehicles that had slowed down for traffic ...
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla — The Sunshine Skyway Bridge looms large over Tampa Bay as the connector between Pinellas and Manatee counties as its impressive arches reach up to the sky over one of the ...
Friday marks 45 years since one of the Tampa Bay area's worst tragedies when a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, ...