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The massive container ship that collided with Baltimore’s iconic Francis Scott Key bridge early Tuesday is the latest example of a vessel coming in contact with a span.
When Paul Tash, former chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Co., heard the news Tuesday morning about a cargo ship striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, it took him right back to May 9, 1980 — the day the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed. Then a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Tash was sent out to cover the story as it was breaking. A freighter slammed into the southbound .