A driver crashed her Jetta into homes in north Charlotte and didn’t stick around
It was around 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning when north Charlotte resident Regina Cohn heard a loud noise outside her house.
Cohn’s daughter was about to leave the house. She had a Lyft driver waiting to pick her up.
But as soon as Cohn heard that sound, she rushed out of the house to see her front yard damaged and the side of her porch scraped up with white paint marks.
A woman who appeared to be speeding, Cohn said, had crashed her car into a neighboring house in the 900 block of Oakdale Road. The driver was coming down Oakdale when she left the road and damaged two houses, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police report.
The driver caused more than $7,000 in damages, according to the report.
Cohn said she saw a white Volkswagen Jetta stuck in a neighboring brick house. The driver got out of the car and appeared to be unscathed, Cohn said. But she ran before Cohn or law enforcement could talk to her.
“I’m like, you can’t just leave, you’ve got to take responsibility,” Cohn said. “She just kept saying, ‘I’ll be back, I’ll be back.’”
After that, Cohn immediately called the police.
No one was injured, but a few of the neighbors were shaken up, Cohn said.
She said this has made her become more protective of her children when they want to walk out on the street.
“It shouldn’t be that way. We have a speed limit for a reason,” Cohn said. “There’s really no excuse for someone to be driving that fast.”
The investigation is open, according to the report.
Cohn reached out on Nextdoor Thursday morning to see if any neighbors had footage or saw the woman leaving the area.
“That’s why I’m reaching out to the neighborhood,” Cohn said. “Maybe someone may have seen her or know her because it’s only right to take responsibility for the damages that you’ve caused.”
