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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — “It’s erratic driving, changing lanes very quickly,” Donald Schnell said.
He was on his way home from work in Pinellas County when he says his dash cam captured the moments leading up to a crash on the Howard Frankland Bridge back in June.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a 19-year-old Spring Hill man, Rolando Garza, was headed eastbound into Tampa in a Ford Focus when he slammed into a 74-year-old Sarasota woman in a Lexus RX350, sending both cars off the bridge.
While crashes on the Howard Frankland might seem pretty typical, this one had Schnell wondering if the drivers went into the waters below.
“There’s so many places on that bridge, you know that this could have happened, they would have been in the water,” Schnell said.
In the dash cam video, you can …