Police in Florida say a 68-year-old man hit two city workers who were cleaning up after hurricane Milton after he illegally drove past construction barriers on a closed off roadway.
Florida Highway Patrol released video where a white SUV can be seen driving over a curb and onto a grassy berm that separates a road and a sidewalk in order to avoid large orange construction barriers that were blocking off an area North of Tampa road around Lake St. George Drive in Pinellas County.
Police said the driver, Charles Edward Kunath of Palm Harbor, continued onto the road and swiftly approached workers who were repairing and cleaning up a flooded roadway that had “been partially washed out.”
Police say Kunath drove around the barriers “which clearly indicated the roadway was closed” and workers began flagging him down at one point.
That’s when highway patrol accuse Kunath of accelerating his vehicle and hitting two workers — a moment that didn’t appear to be in video released by police which showed the SUV initially passing the construction barriers.