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What those covering the Key Bridge collapse can learn from reports about the 1980 Skyway disaster
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.
Tampa Bay Times1y
Lessons from Skyway disaster failed to help protect Baltimore bridge
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 ...
MySuncoast.com on MSN2d
South Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier to close for roadwork
A maintenance construction project will be underway at the South Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier Roadway, starting June 9. Crews ...
The Washington Post1y
Before Baltimore, 35 died after a freighter collapsed Florida’s big bridge
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 ...
WTSP1y
How the Skyway Bridge became one of the most protected in the world after the 1980 collapse
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 ...
FOX 5 Atlanta1y
Baltimore bridge collapse echoes 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster in Tampa Bay
Just under 44 years ago, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed after being hit by a freighter in one of the worst tragedies in the area's history. On May 9, 1980, the M/V Summit Venture freighter ...
UPI1y
Baltimore's bridge collapse recalls lessons of Florida tragedy decades ago
On the morning of May 9, 1980, a freighter slammed into the support columns of the old Sunshine Skyway bridge over Tampa Bay during a violent thunderstorm, causing a 1,300-foot section of the ...
11Alive22d
45 years later: Remembering the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse
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.
Miami Herald23d
The day a Florida bridge fell into the bay, taking down a bus and killing 35
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 ...
WLRN1y
Sunshine Skyway set the standard for bridge protections. They weren't present in Baltimore
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.
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Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge to ditch pride colors for red, white, and blue this summer
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 ...