SUV hits Topeka home
7:31 p.m. Friday, March 9, 2007
A sports utility vehicle hit the front of a Topeka home while going more than 60 miles per hour, police said. It happened at about 10 a.m. Friday at the corner of 27th and Kentucky.
The SUV kept going and ended up hitting a nearby tree. The teenager driver and passenger of the truck ran away but were later caught, police said.
Fortunately no one was inside the house and there were no injuries. But, the owner was fixing it up to re-sell it and happened to be in the front yard and witnessed the crash.
“Big boom,” said Linda Ridgway, describing the sound of the crash. “I yelled at my daughter to call 911, because I figured they got hurt.”
She said the crash wrecked her dreams.
“I think we’ll probably have it torn down now, it just doesn’t look too good now,” said Ridgway.
“It’s just unbelievable that he would do something like that,” said Milton Carr, the father of the 15-year-old believed to have been driving the car.
Carr said his son took his older brother’s SUV, but only made it a few blocks before crashing. Police gave him a ticket, but his father said it’s not enough punishment.
“He needs to learn a lesson right now, is what he needs to learn,” Carr said. “And going home with us today probably won’t be the lesson that he needs to learn. He needs to go down and take responsibility for what happened today.”
According to Kansas law, drivers involved in hit-and-run accidents are only punished with a misdemeanor when no one is seriously injured. A new state law, passed last year, makes leaving the scene of a hit-and-run accident a felony if someone is killed or seriously injured.
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Mar. 10, 2007 at 11:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)knana (anonymous)
The dad needs to talk to his son and find out whats going on. See if something has caused him to need attention. Not just say he's got to learn responibility for what he's done.I'm sure he feels bad about what he did . Hopefully he will be guided in a good way to help out with the damage he made. He must be trying to reach out to someone.I hope that someone is listening.
Mar. 10, 2007 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)Linda (anonymous)
It's a classic case of teenage boredom and possible jealousy of an older brother.
It doesn't need to be analyzed and studied on a psychologist's couch.
The father sounds very responsible and seems to be handling the situation.
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