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Raising Reward Money For Info From a Hit-and-Run

On Thursday morning of 9/10 just before 8:00am, my husband Bobby Butler who is a land surveyor was working alone in the median of a stretch of a very busy highway that is marked with barrels and signs about continued roadwork in Tampa - Hillsborough Ave at Sawyer Rd.  He was the victim of a pedestrian hit-and-run as he worked. He didn’t even know what happened until he woke up about 30-40 yards away from where he was working. The Good Samaritan who stopped to help him VERY UNFORTUNATELY didn’t see what happened. All he saw were people just driving by not offering assistance to a man lying on the ground in the median. And he was shocked that it happened that way. Bobby sustained many major and minor injuries all over his body, especially on his right side, three cracked ribs, right kidney damage, contusions to his upper right arm, possible torn meniscus in his right knee, road rash to both legs and right hand, etc. Not to mention severe pain everywhere else from the impact. I’ve been in touch with Florida Highway Patrol a couple times, but they said there was no camera at that traffic light (very odd as I see them in much smaller intersections), and camera videos from nearby convenience stores didn’t catch anything past the gas pumps. There were cameras at the next traffic light, but as far as I can tell they aren’t investigating that light. I will not know until I get the full report. They expect to have their investigation report completed later today, but unfortunately they’ve said they don’t have much to go on. And because of this, they may or may not send this report to the news because it wasn’t even more serious or God forbid a fatality. We are so grateful and blessed that it truly wasn’t worse. We all know though that SOMEONE out there *had* to have seen something. We want to get this out on the news asking/begging for information and are asking here for help to raise money for a reward which may make the media more interested in assisting by airing our story. Our income will be taking a hit, but we’re going to see if we can hire a lawyer.

I realize there are SO many people out there going through this sort of thing and much worse. And everyone has been in my thoughts and prayers every day. I am humbly asking for any and all help you can offer so that we may generate a reward so hopefully someone will come forward to help find the person responsible while hopefully not falling into a financial hole that we won’t be able to dig out of. If there is anything you can offer or do, it will be appreciated more than you know. Many thanks for your time and consideration. And God bless!

Organizer

Sandy Butler
Organizer
Safety Harbor, FL

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