The Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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1. I was an employee in Ky of Greyhound lines and a member of the union . Greyhound charged the driver with an accident to prevent paying any retirement to his widow and avoid any possible lawsuits…..

2. Didn't know about this, and now I have a new fear unlocked. I'll avoid foggy bridges from now on.

3. This is a sad but amazing story. ♡love your direct coverage ♡ This was one I had never heard also…Thank you!!🎉

4. By motherfuqer Japanese empire

5. I moved to Sarasota in 1977. I had an ominous feeling driving over that bridge. Then, I would have regular dreams of the bridge collapsing. When this happened, those dreams stopped. Horrifying.

6. Tell the truth, that's really Richard Hammond

7. I remember that morning well. My oldest son was four days old and I was driving to work and thinking that this was a really heavy rainstorm, even for the gulf coast. I got to work in Tampa and it was blowing and blinding rain. The “Muzak” that my company usually had playing was interrupted with the announcement that the Skyway bridge has just collapsed. We all looked at each other as if to say, did we just hear that right? I had to cross the bridge on the 22nd street causeway to get home and can remember that they had the ship pulled up for repairs and it still had the steel from the bridge on the bow. Eerie.

8. I found a DEEP void as well. In FLA.
   RIP Angels AMEN 🙏❤❤

9. Similar accident happend in sweden 1980.
   https://youtu.be/r-KhH2qKw64

10. Thank you. So interesting for us to learn of these events.

11. Was stationed at MacDill AFB in Tampa ween this happened ,, something unbelievable you will never forget about

12. That bridge was so scarey just to drive over, at the top it had a metal mesh like road way that you could see down through, It was like the road dissappeared and your hundreads of feet in the air and made a strange noise. It's a lot better today and safer from ship strikes.

13. I still have nightmares about the one you did about the dude that got stuck in the tiny cave for weeks.

14. I would have taken the bridge out weeks ago

15. I legit just talked to my gf about being terrified about this sort of thing. We put so much trust in transportation infrastructure when sometimes all that keeps us from shooting of an unfinished exit ramp is a wrong turn and a couple of orange barrels that could easily not be there.

16. This was a horrible, frightening day. We lived in Clearwater and my husband often crossed that bridge for business in Sarasota. The morning it happened the weather was awful- pouring rain and fog. A couple months later we went over the bridge- two single lanes, the grinding of the metal grates and at the top, you'd look over and the other span just ended in midair. Nightmarish. I couldn't drive it alone. It went straight up and suddenly you felt the wind, the swaying. I don't like the new one either- just too much, though it's beautiful to look at.
    It's a cautionary tale, the survivors have suffered over the years, may they and those lost that day find peace.

17. So if the guy who saw the bridge drop and backed his truck down and stopped would have just blocked the roadway. What a shame…..

18. I was on that bridge 1 week or 2 before in a rain storm before this happened. The bridge was scary. The day I went on the bridge, rain, fog & traffic was so bad that I didn't realize I was elevating that high until I saw the top barely. The map showed it as a road

19. I love the gingle of this channel. Very haunting

20. Cross over that bridge every week! So dope

21. It was a foolish design with danger of ship hitting the pillars

22. As someone who regularly drove over that old bridge hearing about the collapse really gave me a good scare. To this day I can't cross the span without remembering that day.

23. I was so scared the one time I drove across this bridge and next time will be even worse 😭

24. What a stupid captain

25. It’s all fun and games to watch videos like this until your near by where it happened 😭

26. Yikes!….. I can’t count the number of times I had crossed this bridge when I lived in Florida…good thing I hadn’t known about this then 😮

27. We crossed that bridge in '84 when our family went to Florida. It was pretty scary even without knowing this happened.

28. Du redest zu viel und zeigst zu wenig

29. It's outrageous that the pilot of the boat did not spend a single decade behind the bars… criminal

30. I was driving to work that morning in the worst rain storm I had ever seen, and I was born and raised in St. Petersburg! I was no stranger to hard rain. I could not see beyond the end of the hood of my car. The rain mixed with the fog made visibility impossible. I heard the notice about the bridge over my car radio. It was too dangerous to pull over and too dangerous to continue. I got off the highway and tried to make my way to work. I gave up and headed for home. It took me 4.5 hours to go the remaining 10 miles home. I had to park my car blocks away due to the flooding and finally was given a "ride" home in a neighbor's canoe!

31. The 6 or 7 years between the accident and new bridge…. the remaining main old span was reduced to 2 lanes for both directions, and it bounced/shook depending on how much/what kind of traffic was on it. Not only was it really 'up there' for the heights people, but you could glance over at the broken span still hanging over the water. I knew some people that refused to drive over it.. too nerve-wracking.

32. There is a 14km bridge here in Brazil. It is from Rio de Janeiro to Niterói. It is been very safe but I always feel fearful when I cross it.

33. I Remember crossing that Bridge…

34. my family and I are from Michigan and we went down to Florida for a vacation. We went over that bridge a day or two before the collapse. Not a close call like some people, but when you get back to Michigan and see the disaster on the news , it gives you that “holy crap” moment. I was just there. 😲🫣

35. I was living in Florida 25 miles south from here when this happened. I’ve never liked this bridge. It’s to long above the water.

36. Let's just wait until there's a real serious disaster with the bridge resulting in numerous deaths before we do something about the water approaches. Whatdaya say, boys?!

37. I live right by this bridge

38. Interesting to see the captain cleared of all charges. He was obviously guilty of gross negligence here, caution would have avoided the crash completely.

39. The Summit venture was heading into Tampa Bay not out!!

40. This is a fishing pier now. I’ve never heard this story. Gonna think about it next time I go fishing

41. Great video. Very interesting, the way that you told the story. And great voice.

42. I seen one of the worst accidents ever traveling on this bridges replacement. We were stopped an I called to tell my mom we were in Florida when a dump truck slammed into the back of a parked car going about 50 mph. I'll never forget that.

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44. Unreal.. of course I don't know everything, but never heard of this. Seems on level with the Tacoma Bridge or I-35 collapse, but I knew nothing about this. I was going to college at the time.. where graduation was at the Hyatt Regency Hotel where the skyways/catwalks collapsed and killed over 100 people a month after I walked on them (documentary is on youtube).

45. Too bad some of those drivers just had to be a$$holes and ignore the driver who stopped and yelled for them to stop. But no. Some people just have to be in such a hurry that they can't take literally 10-20 seconds to slow down and use common sense. Especially that bus driver. Killing 25 innocent students all cuz you can't slow down and pay attention. There's a reason someone in front of you has stopped. Instead of being a jerk and continuing to go around them maybe just slow down and pay attention. Might have saved some people's lives that day. And I'm not talking about the ones who initially had no warning. There was nothing some of then could do. But the others who ignored the driver who had stopped and tried to warn people, there's no excuse for those people.

46. I had never heard of this. How awful. And terrifying.

47. When I was a baby mom and dad had a flat on the SSB , WITH MY OLDEST BROTHER AND ME 58 YEARS AGO HE KEPT ON DRIVING MOM WAS SCARD TO DEATH ,WELL JUST A FIGURE OF SPEACH,,, AND A WEEK LATER THE TAMPA NEWS PAPER HAD A SEGMENT ON ' IF YOU HAVE A FLAT ON THE BRIDGE KEEP ON DRIVING AND DON'T STOP .

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