Xuan Do says he saw a six foot piece of concrete come crashing down on the car in front of him on 35-E Saturday afternoon.
He says it crunched the hood of that car and that is why the driver and his daughter were uninjured.
Do says he was on his way to a concert with his family when he saw the giant piece of cement tumble off the Maryland Avenue Bridge.
After it hit the car he was following, Do said it split into a hundred pieces. "So it dropped into the highway and then they popped into my van. It was like popcorn," Do recalled.
He swerved to the right to avoid hitting the car that was hit by the first big chunk. He looked at his wife, his two kids, and a friend, who were in the van. "And I said everybody's okay, that's a good thing."
"Oh my god, that's almost what happened to me," Sarah Fahey said, standing next to her Toyota Yaris. Last year, Fahey says she was driving under the France Avenue bridge over Highway 62 when a chunk of concrete hit her car from above. She says it happened almost a year ago, to the day.
"When it hit my windshield, it broke into pieces and slid up over the roof and damaged the roof and the trunk," she said.
Fahey said she called MN Dot after the accident and was told the piece of concrete (about the size of a football) came from a truck working above, not from the bridge itself.
Fahey says she's not so sure. "I keep kicking myself, I wish I would have gone back and got a piece, then I'd have been able to find out if it did come from the bridge," Fahey explained.
Fahey says she has contacted local lawmakers asking for more inspections on highway overpass bridges.
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