Nation: What a Horrible Sight!

A fogbound freighter crashes into a Florida bridge

It was rush hour on a foggy morning in Tampa Bay last week, and traffic was heavy on the 15-mile-long Sunshine Skyway, a chain of five bridges and six causeways that links St. Petersburg with Bradenton and Sarasota. Thundershowers and fierce winds lashed the bay from time to time. Suddenly, at 7:38 a.m., the Summit Venture, a 609-ft. Liberian-registered freighter that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then...

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