hit and run

CaughtOnCamera: Hit-and-Run

Hit-and-run victim escapes injury Hit-and-run victim escapes injury A lot of people in the mountains are saying a man is lucky to be alive after he managed to escape getting severely hurt in a collision with an SUV. The whole thing was caught on camera. In the surveillance video that’s posted on YouTube.com, you can see an SUV pull into the oncoming left turning lane on Haywood Road in Asheville, meeting a scooter head-on. The scooter gets hit, but the man on it escapes. That was Friday afternoon around 2 on Haywood Road in Asheville. “I made sure I shook his hand by the end of the day because he’s the luckiest man I met in a while,” Lane Reid said. Reid was inside his office at Image 420 when he says his employees saw the collision. “I looked up at my camera screen and was like ‘Oh my goodness.’ Traffic was backed up. This guy was walking around. It was pretty nuts,” Reid said. Security cameras outside Reid’s business caught the impact, commotion and the driver waiting for a moment before pulling away. So Reid posted it on YouTube.com. “I wanted to get the guy that did it,” Reid said. Asheville police told WYFF News 4 that because of that surveillance video and the community’s help, they’ve tracked down the person driving the SUV. But police would not tell us why the driver took off, saying that was part of the investigation. Meanwhile, the video has been seen […]