Weeks after drivers started reaching out to Tampa Bay 28 about damage to their vehicles, were finally hearing from the contractor behind the Tyrone Boulevard repaving project.
Rachel Atkin says her black Tahoe was hit by wet and possibly dry concrete while driving through the construction zone last week. One of her SUVs windows shattered just feet from where her 5-year-old daughter was sitting.
I mean, it was so close. Its terrifying, Atkin said. She was crying. She was worried. She didnt know if we were going to be okay.
Atkin isnt alone. At least three other drivers have told us their cars were splattered with wet concrete along the stretch of roadway where a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) contractor, Tampa-based Gosalia Concrete, is repaving three miles of Tyrone Bouleva