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 ...

The investigation concluded that the ship’s master incorrectly calculated the crane’s height.The collision led to damage on the ... collision with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida in ...

After the deadly Sunshine Skyway Bridge collision near Tampa ... Shields agreed a boat that big hitting virtually any bridge would cause severe damage and said the key to avoiding another Key ...

in response to the NTSB’s investigation of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida, the news release said. At the time, AASHTO also recommended that all bridge owners conduct the ...

other bridges identified as needing a vulnerability assessment were the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Brooklyn and George Washington bridges in New York and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge ...

The fender was damaged but the bridge remained intact ... At the time AASHTO established its guidance, which followed the 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida, it also recommended ...

Also in 1980, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa ... “The ship would be damaged, but the bridge would have been spared, the lives would have been spared.” Asked why the bridge’s pier ...

As Interstate 275 touches down off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and snakes north toward ... 714 were lost and more than 40,000 damaged. Yet no destruction is as publicly palpable as the Trop ...

Both the northbound and southbound lanes of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge are reopened after being ... Bend region Thursday evening. Fallen trees damaged homes and cars, and hundreds of calls for ...

Both the northbound and southbound lanes of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge are reopened after being ... Bend region Thursday evening. Fallen trees damaged homes and cars, and hundreds of calls for ...