Early on the morning of May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when the Sunshine Skyway bridge collapsed. Twenty-six of the victims of the Sunshine Skyway collapse were passengers on a Greyhound bus. Six cars and one pickup truck also plummeted from the Sunshine Skyway bridge when it collapsed. Only one person who went over the edge survived -- Wesley MacIntire, the driver of the pickup. He died in 1989. A famous photograph from the disaster shows a yellow Buick driven by Richard Hornbuckle of St. Petersburg stopped 14 inches short of the Sunshine Skyway bridges edge. Hornbuckle and his three passengers escaped. ~photos and info from Tampabay
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