LYNN, MASS. (WHDH) - The man who says his car was crushed by a pickup truck in Lynn overnight claims his mother chased down the hit-and-run driver before police arrested them.
A surveillance camera on Adams Street captured the moment when the pickup truck slammed into the rear of Daniel Donator’s parked car, leaving behind significant damage.
The driver then drove away, prompting Daniel Donator’s mother, Maria Donator, to hop in her car and follow the suspect.
“I thought to myself, ‘I hope that’s not my car that I just heard,’ and I come out and I see my car’s just missing a huge chunk,” Daniel Donator said. “(My mom) came out of the driveway, actually chased the guy, caught up to him and the police grabbed him. Thankfully for my mom, she was pretty much the hero in this situation.”
Maria Donator added that she didn’t know what she was thinking in the moment but felt she needed to follow the suspect.
“I just wanted to stop him. I just wanted to say, ‘You know what, you did this to my son. Why’d you left?’ That was my thing to him, like why he did that; why he didn’t stop. Somebody could have been in that vehicle,” she said.
Lynn police confirmed that one person was placed under arrest. Their name has not been released.
There were no reported injuries.
The demolished car was towed from the scene.
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