The shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning gives people in the Bay Area some frightening flashbacks to another disaster.
READ: Baltimore Key Bridge collapses after struck by cargo ship; 2 rescued, several others believed in waterJust under 44 years ago, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed after being hit by a freighter in one of the worst tragedies in the area's history. 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.
Thirty-five people were killed after six cars, a truck, and a Greyhound bus fell over 150 feet into the water.READ: 42 years pass since deadly Sunshine Skyway Bridge disasterThe current bridge opened in 1987. Portions of the old stretch remain, though, in the form of the fishing piers at each end of the 'new' bridge.
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