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 ...

A defining news event for a generation of people living around Tampa Bay was the destruction of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, struck by an oil freighter during a stormy morning in May 1980.

The new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, completed in 1987, is a cable-stay concrete bridge, believed to be the safest and one of the best designed of its kind in the world. As seen in this 2006 aerial ...

After the Sunshine Skyway bridge was hit by a freighter and collapsed in 1980, new protection measures were installed around the supports that hold the bridge up. Engineers put in place islandlike ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday marks 45 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck a support column of the old bridge during the morning rush hour.

TAMPA, Fla. — Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse early Tuesday morning was an eerie reminder of the deadly 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster in Tampa Bay. Since that tragic day ...

A new Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987. The standing wreckage from the old bridge became the Skyway Fishing Pier State Park in 1994. At least 40 tons of debris from the old bridge have become ...

Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge will not be displaying rainbow lights this year and will instead be lit with red, white, and blue lights for over three months. The bridge, which serves as a ...

After a 606-foot freighter crashed into the southbound span of the Sunshine Skyway bridge in 1980, it caused a 1,200-foot section of roadway to collapse. It took years to build a new one.

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — If you were thinking of using the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tomorrow, you might need to start thinking of another way across. The Northbound lanes of I-275 will be CLOSED ...