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 ...

On May 9, 1980, disaster struck as a cargo ship slammed into the Skyway Bridge. What followed was one of Florida’s deadliest infrastructure failures. AOC Is Running Out of Time Here’s the ...

Hornbuckle, a self-proclaimed Florida cracker ... hit the southbound span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. More than a thousand feet of the bridge collapsed, sending 35 people over the edge to ...

RELATED: 45 years later: Remembering the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse Safety experts say ... a marine science expert at the University of South Florida and a recognized authority on Skyway ...

and Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which itself was built to replace a structure collapsed by a vessel impact in 1980 that killed 35 motorists. Should the calculations indicate a bridge has ...

In the wake of the collapse of the Francis Scott ... including the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida; the Queen Elizabeth Causeway Bridge near South Padre Island, Texas; and the I ...

Maryland officials overseeing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore ... bridge collision— the collapse of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa, Florida, in 1980. A 1,200-foot span of ...

Some of the bridges include the Golden Gate Bridge in California, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida ... are certain to collapse, but rather those ...

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 ...