Driver of a pickup truck loses control and damages 5 parked cars and flees. owners hoping to identify him from video

Residents in an Encino neighborhood are hoping for justice after the driver of a pickup truck crashed into a half dozen parked cars over the weekend and then fled the scene, leaving behind heavily damaged vehicles and big repair bills for the car owners

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“We’re not sure if it’s an F150 or an F250, but one of the two came down this street,” one of the vehicle’s owners, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA’s Mary Beth McDade. “At a certain point, the driver seemed to lose control from the footage we’ve seen, and he started bouncing off the row of cars.”

It was only three weeks ago that he and his wife purchased their red SUV, which sustained considerable damage in the hit-and-run crash.


“He hit about five cars before he crashed on this red SUV over here and that’s when he just stopped bouncing,” he said. “He pushed that [car] kind of into the sidewalk and into the gray sedan in front of it.”

In the footage, the driver, who is wearing long shorts and has what appears to be a ponytail, exits the vehicle and walks around the front of the truck to get a look at the damage before jumping back behind the wheel and leaving the area.

“All five cars are heavily damaged,” the SUV owner added. “I don’t know if they’ve officially ruled them totaled yet, but they’re not drivable.”

The couple lives down the street from where the crash occurred and were unaware that their SUV had been hit until several hours after the hit-and-run, when the wife had plans to go somewhere.