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A Collision of Guilt: What Caused the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster?
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 ...
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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse – Tragedy in the Fog
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. Former Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean ...
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The day a Florida bridge fell into the bay, taking down a bus and killing 35
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 ...
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Majority of U.S. bridges lack impact protection. After the Key Bridge collapse, will anything change?
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 ...
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Maryland officials should have known Key Bridge was vulnerable: NTSB
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 ...