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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.
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge this week spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway tragedy.
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.
On May 9, 1980, a storm-blinded ship slammed into a bridge in Tampa Bay, causing a deadly collapse
On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck the bridge, killing 35 people in one of the worst disasters in Tampa Bay history.