By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor
A flatbed semi-truck hauling rebar hit a parked car on Collins Street as it tried to make a turn at the corner of Reynolds and Collins Streets.
The 2008 red Mitsubishi Eclipse sustained damage to its driver’s side door and rear. The back tire also sustained damage, causing it to go flat. The car was pushed forward in its parking space in front of Miss Ruby’s Antiques and Collectables but did not hit the black Nissan Versa parked in front of it.
“It just ruined my day,” Janet Denham, owner of the Eclipse, said.
Denham was in town from Lakeland to do some shopping. She often comes to shop in the historic downtown district, but it was the first time she parallel parked in that spot.
A tire on the passenger’s side of semi-truck’s trailer blew. The sound caused people from surrounding stores to come out and investigate the origin.
“It was a horrible sound,” one bystander said, who was sitting on a bench outside of Collins Street Junction, an antique store next to Miss Ruby’s Antiques and Collectables, when it happened. “It was very loud. It was scary.”
According to police, the truck driver was using his GPS to navigate through town. He came from the Zephyrhills area and was trying to turn onto Collins Street when he hit the car.
Trucks are not supposed to come through downtown and down Collins Street. The proper trucking routes direct trucks down Wheeler Street, Alexander Street and Park Road.
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