This disaster shares some common features with the Skyway Bridge collapse in Florida in 1980, and the I-40 Bridge Disaster in Oklahoma in 2002, both involving collisions with ships.
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The 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster in Hobart, the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania, when a bridge was hit by a 7,000 ton bulk carrier, causing a 400 foot section of roadway to fall 120 feet into the river below.