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Driver: Car with only 3 wheels stolen after crash
A driver accused of speeding, losing control and causing a series of crashes told a number of tall tales to police, including that she was car-jacked following the accident.
Dayton police were called to the BP fuel station on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard at 2:40 a.m. Jan. 19., on a report of a hit and run accident.
At the gas station, officers found a chaotic scene with multiple drivers yelling different versions of what happened. A pickup truck driver said he’d been struck by a female in a Grand Prix. She said she’d been struck by a semi-truck and then a male had jumped out of a van at the gas station and taken her damaged car. The van driver said there was a female with him who needed a medic because she was having trouble breathing.
Once the parties were separated and questioned the stories became more clear:
The female driving the Grand Prix said she’d been driving southbound on I-75 when she was hit by a semi, causing her to strike the red pickup and the wall. She said she got off the highway at Edwin C. Moses because her car was heavily damaged. She said a man she didn’t know got out of a van and pulled her from the car, then drove off.
The male driving the pickup said he was driving on southbound I-75 when he was struck by the Grand Prix from behind, then saw the Grand Prix strike the wall. He said another car sped away at a high rate of speed while he, the Grand Prix and a van exited the highway. As he called 911 about the accident, a male got out of the van got a bunch of girls out of the car and drove away. He said when UD police arrived he told them to follow the Grand Prix because it was fleeing the scene.
The driver of the van said the people in his van and the girls in the Grand Prix had all been together at a club. He said they left and were traveling down I-75 with him following the Grand Prix. He said he couldn’t keep up because the Grand Prix was going too fast and racing a green Cadillac. He said he was a ways back when he saw the Grand Prix lose control and hit the wall. He said the car spun several times and collided with several other vehicles, but he couldn’t see exactly what happened. He said he got off the highway after the Grand Prix and one of the males in his van jumped out and had his female friends exit so he could drive the car away. The females, besides the driver, came to hang out in his van.
During all of this questioning, the female driver became very irate and had to be handcuffed in the back of a cruiser. She said the other men were lying and that her car had been stolen by someone she didn’t know, according to the police report.
UD police soon called to say that they’d located the Grand Prix. The driver had fled from them and crashed into a tree on Hopeland Street, just north of UD Arena. When the female driver was taken there to see her car and get her insurance paperwork - which she never found - she admitted that she knew the man who took her car as “Will”.
A fourth witness, one of the females who’d been riding in the Grand Prix came forward and gave a statement that supported the stories told by the two male drivers.
She said a bunch of girls were riding in the Grand Prix which was traveling very fast down I-75. She said they hit a green Cadillac and the red pickup before exiting the highway. She said a guy they knew named Will jumped in at the gas station and took off in the car.
The driver of the Grand Prix was issued citations for an expired license and failure to control her vehicle. The only thing that she would agree to from the other statements was that at some point she struck the red pickup truck.
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