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After the disaster, a taller, cable-stayed bridge was constructed. It opened in 1987 at a cost of $224 million with a clearance of 175 feet and a channel 1,200 feet wide — 400 feet wider than the channel at the time of the disaster. “John definitely was the 36th victim of the disaster,” Yerrid said.
May 8, 2020 · Part five in a series. At 7:34 a.m. Friday, May 9, 1980, Wesley MacIntire was driving his Ford Courier pickup over the southbound span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, headed for his job at a meat-delivery business. Just after he threw his two quarters into the tollbooth basket, he would later testify, the steady rain turned cyclonic.
- Bill Deyoung
1 day ago · READ: Baltimore bridge collapse echoes 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster in Tampa Bay. ... Florida, causing 34 deaths. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ...
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, sometimes referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, or simply " the Skyway ", is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge that spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County ( St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County ( Terra Ceia, Florida ).
- 1,200 ft (366 m)
- 4.14 mi (6.7 km)
- April 20, 1987; 36 years ago
- Tampa Bay
Mar 26, 2024 · Before Baltimore, 35 died after a freighter collapsed Florida’s big bridge. Dick Hornbuckle's yellow 1976 Buick Skylark sits stopped 14 inches from disaster at the edge of the Sunshine Skyway ...
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Mar 26, 2024 · On May 9, 1980, the M/V Summit Venture freighter collided with a support beam on the Skyway Bridge, connecting Lower Tampa Bay to St. Pete, sending a 1,200-foot section of the road into the water below. It was just after 7:30 a.m. that day when a storm blew across Tampa Bay and gusted the 600-foot-long freighter into the bridge.
May 9, 2022 · The ship struck just after 7:30 a.m. causing a 1,200-foot span of the bridge to collapse into the bay. Thirty-five people on the bridge at the time died, when six cars, a truck and a Greyhound bus ...
