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A drunk driver was heading toward the Skyway 10K route. The roadblock was set up to stop drivers from entering the Sunshine Skyway Bridge as it was blocked off for the Armed Forces Skyway 10K Race over Tampa Bay on Sunday.
According to a local news report from WFLA, the driver from Sarasota, Florida plowed through ‘several cones and around multiple barricades’ before two FWC officers and three Florida Highway Patrol troopers were ordered to intervene. This is when FHP Trooper Toni Schuck selflessly placed her vehicle directly in the path of the drunk driver preventing a huge tragedy.
This footage is hard to watch, and you should know the officer survived the crash but was hospitalized with injuries and is now recovering.
The drunk driver was hit with multiple charges after the accident including DUI serious injury, two counts of reckless drive damage person or property, and two counts of DUI damage to property or person of another.