On May 9, 1980, disaster struck as a cargo ship slammed into the Skyway Bridge. What followed was one of Florida’s deadliest infrastructure failures.

The Key Bridge collapse led to the deaths of six construction workers and untold economic damages for the Chesapeake Bay ...

And the collapse wasn't just *** local disaster ... it in 1991 as a result of a ship collision with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida in 1980. All bridges built over navigable waterways ...

Following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge ... have been implemented at the Dames Point Bridge and Sunshine Skyway Bridge to mitigate impact from maritime vessels.