Photos of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge through the years
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A car precariously balanced on Friday, May 9, 1980, just 14 inches short of plummeting 140 feet into Tampa Bay, Florida, after the freighter "Summit Venture" rammed into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge during a thunderstorm, killing 34 people.
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