On May 9, 1980, drivers on Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge were moving through fog without knowing the road ahead was gone. Minutes earlier, the freighter Summit Venture had struck a support pier, ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The old Skyway Bridge collapsed 46 years ago on May 9, 1980.