My wife came out of our house yesterday morning to find that sometime during the night a car had apparently gone out of control, driven across our front lawn and walk, and then crashed into a brick wall by the driveway. Whoever had driven the car was gone, leaving the car perched across the brick wall like a seesaw.
I have to admit that my first thought on hearing this news was to be concerned about my car. I normally park it in the driveway. When I remembered that I had left the car at the airport, I thought next of the driver’s potential criminal liability.
Evidence of any potential drinking-and-driving offense vanished with the driver. Remaining charges that come to mind include fleeing the scene of an accident; theft, receiving stolen property, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle (if the car had been stolen); carjacking (if the car had been stolen directly from the owner); and/or filing a false police report (if the car was reported stolen by the owner to evade criminal liability).
I never liked that wall anyway, my wife said.
