Driver crashes into 4 parked vehicles in Aurora, search underway
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Four vehicle owners in Aurora are looking for the driver responsible for hitting and damaging their parked vehicles before fleeing the scene.
The crash can be heard in a home surveillance video.
It happened in the area of Kenton Street in the early morning hours just before 5:30 a.m. Sunday.
“I’m like, this has to be a nightmare. What is going on?” said Fernanda Gutierrez Franco.
Franco came outside hours later to find three of her family’s parked vehicles, as well as a neighbor’s vehicle, rammed together and damaged.
“The first thing I notice is the Jeep is like on the sidewalk, and then I see my car, the hood lifted off,” said Franco. “I assume they were traveling north breaking the glass. There’s the headlight and fragments of glass on the ground.”
The first thing she did was call the police. Luckily, no one was injured, but she knows that could have not been the case.
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“I could have been out late at night or something. Anyone could have been hurt in this,” Franco said.
She wants to find the person responsible and has taken several measures like posting to the Nextdoor app and going door-to-door to see what neighbors may have seen.
Fortunately, one neighbor shared home surveillance footage with her, but Franco doesn’t have much more to go off of.
“This is the only thing we found,” Franco said showing a piece of a bumper. “We know our vehicles and what belongs to them, so this was kind of lying in the ground right here in the distance in front of the Jeep.”
Franco said people speed through the area of Kenton and 12th Street all the time, which worries neighbors because it’s next to a school zone.
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“There’s usually a lot of high speed happening here, this is a year-round situation. When it’s warmer we see it with more frequency. And then at the intersection at the school and the church, they’re always doing donuts late summer nights,” Franco said. “There was an incident when a car was going at full speed and blew through a neighbor’s whole garage. That whole garage was in flames for a really long time from the early morning through the day.”
As a college student who works, she relies on her vehicle to get around.
“It’s my only means of transportation. I’ll be graduating soon. It sucks because all of this will be put on hold because now, I don’t have something to get around,” said Franco. “I’ll find a way, but obviously I don’t have the money to buy a car right off the back because college tuition is insane.”
She’s hoping to find the person responsible.
“Thousands of dollars’ worth of damage down the drain with someone who didn’t come forward or leave a note or something. I’m really hoping if there’s any information out there we can get a hold of to help out with some of the damages,“ Franco said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Aurora Police Department at 303-739-6000.
Neighbors in the area want drivers to be more mindful of their speed limit, and they would like to see measures put in place like speed bumps to help slow them down.
Franco has started a GoFundMe to help cover the repair costs. She plans to share the funds raised between all victims of the hit-and-run.
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