“It was scary. It was frightening ... It took years to design and construct a new bridge over Tampa Bay. The Sunshine Skyway collapsed in 1980, but a new bridge did not open until 1987.

Dozens of bridges across the country are in need of a safety assessment because they could be at risk of collapse.

St. Petersburg's Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida's tallest bridge, has been identified by the National Transportation Safety Board as one of 68 bridges that have an "unknown level of risk of collapse" ...

A USF oceanography expert says designers "went to great lengths" to reduce the possibility of a collapse — especially since ...

The NTSB has called for 68 bridges to undergo collision vulnerability assessments, including the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. FOX 13’s Kellie Cowan reports.

Other bridges could be in a dangerous state too. One bridge mentioned in the report was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, which was rebuilt after the original collapse caused by the ...