ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday marks 45 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck a support column of the old bridge during the morning rush hour. Six cars, a ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — There’s a push to prevent tragedy from happening again. It’s been one year since the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. This week, the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg's Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida's tallest bridge, has been identified by the National Transportation Safety Board as one of 68 bridges that have an "unknown ...

The 1980 Skyway Bridge disaster remains one of the most dramatic structural collapses in U.S. history. Amid a blinding storm, the cargo ship Summit Venture veered off course and struck a critical ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla., (WFLA) – Today marks 45 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed and claimed the lives of 35 people. 8 On Your Side’s Alessandra Young spoke with a diver who went into ...

In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse.

The National Transportation Safety Board is urging the owners of 68 bridges in 19 U.S. states to figure out whether their spans are at risk of collapsing if hit by a ship. The bridges include both ...