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You have to be a very special breed of SOB to drive recklessly with your child in the back. But if you get into an accident because of your reckless driving, and you flee the scene and leave the kid behind you in the wreck, you’re entirely in a league of your own.
This goes for a woman in Nashua, New Hampshire, whom the police tried to pull over this week on suspicion of distracted driving. Officers were out on the road to catch potentially distracted drivers when they spotted someone using their phone while driving, Boston 25 News reports.
They signaled the driver to pull over but she, Tracey Pelletier, refused and continued driving. The officers did not engage in a pursuit, thinking that the offense was too small to risk causing an accident. However, Pelletier didn’t know that: she must have assumed they were after her because she accelerated and ultimately lost control of her car.
She crashed into a local business and was stopped in her tracks.
“She had to have been doing probably 90 when she hit over here, and she hit the whole building, she went from that side of the building all the way to the other building when she finally stopped,” Pam Leduc, who lives next door and saw the crash, tells the media outlet.
And here’s where things get even stranger: Pelletier emerged unhurt from the wreck. She got out of the car and made a run for it on foot, leaving her 6-year-old son in the back. He tumbled out of the wreck and Leduc took him inside until police arrived.
“He was crying, he was scared, wanted his mom,” the woman explains. “He went chasing after her, I grabbed him so he didn't get hurt.”
Leduc’s husband chased after Pelletier, followed by a police officer. Cops eventually caught her as she was trying to hide inside someone’s house and she was charged with “disobeying an officer, conduct after an accident, reckless conduct, endangering the welfare of a child, resisting detention, criminal trespass, operating after suspension, and use of a phone while driving.”
The law doesn’t mention any charges for being a terrible, disgusting human being. In happier news, the kid only received minor injuries in the crash.
They signaled the driver to pull over but she, Tracey Pelletier, refused and continued driving. The officers did not engage in a pursuit, thinking that the offense was too small to risk causing an accident. However, Pelletier didn’t know that: she must have assumed they were after her because she accelerated and ultimately lost control of her car.
She crashed into a local business and was stopped in her tracks.
“She had to have been doing probably 90 when she hit over here, and she hit the whole building, she went from that side of the building all the way to the other building when she finally stopped,” Pam Leduc, who lives next door and saw the crash, tells the media outlet.
And here’s where things get even stranger: Pelletier emerged unhurt from the wreck. She got out of the car and made a run for it on foot, leaving her 6-year-old son in the back. He tumbled out of the wreck and Leduc took him inside until police arrived.
“He was crying, he was scared, wanted his mom,” the woman explains. “He went chasing after her, I grabbed him so he didn't get hurt.”
Leduc’s husband chased after Pelletier, followed by a police officer. Cops eventually caught her as she was trying to hide inside someone’s house and she was charged with “disobeying an officer, conduct after an accident, reckless conduct, endangering the welfare of a child, resisting detention, criminal trespass, operating after suspension, and use of a phone while driving.”
The law doesn’t mention any charges for being a terrible, disgusting human being. In happier news, the kid only received minor injuries in the crash.
NEW AT 10: Surveillance video captures the moment a car barrels into a #Nashua business, neighbors shocked to see the driver flee from the car leaving a 6-year-old boy alone in the car after impact @boston25 pic.twitter.com/ZQyZJnsRug
— Julie Leonardi (@JulieLeonardiTV) August 21, 2019
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