Unknown driver strikes utility pole

Around 9 p.m. Thursday night, the Warner Robins Police Department responded to a vehicle accident in which the unidentified driver of a Chrysler PT Cruiser struck and cracked an electrical pole on Utah Avenue, after traveling at, according to the report, a high rate of speed. The report stated that the vehicle was located in the middle of the intersection of Utah and Oklahoma Avenues, sustaining heavy damage to the front, as well as having the passenger and driver’s side air bags deployed.

The report informs that the owner of the vehicle had received phone calls from friends in the area telling him that his vehicle was at the intersection and had been wrecked. The owner then drove to the location to check the damage to the vehicle. The report said that the owner was unsure who had been driving the vehicle, but that it was not anyone in his family.

The responding officer made contact with a neighbor, the report reads, whose doorbell camera had recorded the incident. The report showed that the video documented the vehicle traveling south on Utah Avenue at a high rate of speed, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and made contact with the electrical pole. The driver exited the vehicle, and was described as a “heavy set” black male wearing a black and white jacket, black pants and black shoes. The report stated that the unknown driver then walked North on Utah Avenue, and out of the frame of the video.

The report noted that the owner’s fiancé said that she had last seen the vehicle around 12 p.m. that day and that her son had recently been driving it. Both the owner and the fiancé were shown the video and stated that they did not recognize the driver. They declined that the vehicle had been stolen, mentioning that their son may have loaned the vehicle to a friend.

The vehicle was towed, and Flint Energies was dispatched to the scene. The incident is still under investigation.

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