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Topical Currents

A Recount Of The Sunshine Skyway Bridge

05/09/16 - Monday’s Topical Currents, recounts the terrible events which caused the collapse of Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

Writer and editor Bill DeYoung, has researched events for the book, SKYWAY:  The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge, and the Man Who Brought It Down.
 
Thirty-five people lost their lives on May 9th, 1980, when a 20-thousand-ton vessel rammed a support pier.
It shouldn’t have happened.

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