Skyway
The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down

Bill Deyoung (Author)

9780813062976

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2016

256 pages, 30 black & white photographs
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.351 kg

On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the fifteen-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The main span splintered and collapsed 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Seven cars and a Greyhound bus fell over the broken edge and into the churning water below. Thirty-five people died.

Skyway tells the entire story of this horrific event. Through personal interviews and extensive research, Bill DeYoung pieces together the harrowing moments of the collision, including the first-person accounts of witnesses and survivors. The result is a gripping retelling of the worst ship-bridge collision in U.S. history.