(12-28-2016, Originally aired 5-9-2016) On today’s Topical Currents, we recount the terrible events which caused the collapse of Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Writer and editor Bill DeYoung, has researched events for the book, SKYWAY: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge, and the Man Who Brought It Down . Thirty-five people lost their lives on May 9 th , 1980, when a 20-thousand-ton vessel rammed a support pier. (It shouldn’t have happened.)