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May 8, 2020 · Saturday marks 40 years since the 19,734-ton Summit Venture freighter slammed into the old Skyway bridge. Six cars, a truck and a Greyhound bus plummeted 150 feet into the choppy waters of...
- gcalise@tampabay.com
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May 6, 2020 · It was nearly 44 years ago that the storm-blinded freighter Summit Venture crashed into the support columns of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, causing a 1,200-foot span of the bridge to collapse...
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The first incident was on the night of January 28, when the United States Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn collided with the tanker Capricorn in the western approach to the bridge, resulting in the sinking of the cutter with the loss of 23 crew members in the worst peacetime disaster in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Mar 26, 2024 · More than four decades before a freighter hit Baltimore’s Key Bridge, a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg, Fla., killing 35.
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May 9, 2023 · A 1,200-foot section of the bridge collapsed, sending several cars and a Greyhound bus into the waters of Tampa Bay. Thirty-five people died. A new bridge opened in 1987 and the approaches to...
Mar 26, 2024 · Published March 26, 2024 7:43am EDT. Tampa. FOX 13 News. 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. Lloyd Sowers reports. TAMPA, Fla. - The shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning gives people in the Bay Area some frightening flashbacks to another disaster.
May 9, 2015 · We remember a deadly accident on Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge 35 years ago Saturday. We hear from survivors and find out what changes were made after the crash of a ship onto the bridge....
