Sunshine Skyway
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Box girder bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
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| Status: | demolished |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, USA, North America Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA, North America |
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| Crossed |
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| Replaced by |
Sunshine Skyway Bridge (1987)
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Technical Information
Materials
| truss |
steel
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Chronology
| 9 May 1980 | A navigational error causes a large freight ship Summit Venture to hit a bridge pier during a storm. The cantilever span of one of the superstructures collapses into Tampa Bay. Several vehicles and a Greyhound bus fall into the waters killing 35 people. |
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Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Le "Sunshine" Skyway, in "La Technique des Travaux", September 1958, n. 9-10 v. 34
- Preventing Another Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", March 1982, n. 3 v. 52
- Tierra sobre el agua, Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), ISBN 8438001483, 1999; pp. 91-92
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0003386 |
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| Created: | 27/05/2002 |
| Last Updated: | 27/02/2013 |