The Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse is one of the most tragic and haunting bridge disasters in U.S. history. On May 9, 1980, a freighter collided with a support pier during a violent storm, causing a ...

The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March took me back 44 years, when an eerily similar disaster happened in Tampa Bay with the collapse of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

After the collapse, crews tore down most of what remained, leaving behind the ends that are now fishing piers. The new "Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge" was rebuilt seven years later and ...

A massive freighter, a deadly storm, and a bridge collapse that shocked the nation. On May 9, 1980, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge fell into the water, taking innocent lives with it. Russian spy ...

Parts of the 1.6-mile, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed into the Patapsco River after it was struck by a large cargo ship Tuesday morning. Local, state and ...

May 9 marks the anniversary of when part of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed into Tampa Bay after it was struck by a freighter during a storm. The crash sent seven vehicles and a ...

Also in 1980, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa, Florida, collapsed after a freighter hit a support column of the bridge. Since then, new protection measures have been developed to prevent ...

"Or they might do what they did at Sunshine Skyway: Put an island in front of it." NTSB preliminary report of Key Bridge collapse The National Transportation Safety Board is working to determine ...

in response to the NTSB’s investigation of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida. At the time, AASHTO also recommended that all bridge owners conduct the vulnerability assessment on ...