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On May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when a 19,734-ton Summit Venture freighter ship slammed into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Only one person survived: A man named Wesley MacIntire.
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The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge this week spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway tragedy.
The recent disaster in Baltimore shows that older infrastructure is vulnerable. The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston Harbor, instead, is well-protected.
On Tuesday the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore crumbled into the water after being struck by a ship, much like bridges in Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, which met the same fate.