Angry Parent Asks YOUR Help to Find Hit and Run Driver

Late in the day yesterday a Pocomoke Tattler reader posted a copy of a Craigslist ad offering a reward for a hit and run driver in the Tattler Forums. By the time I read this and clicked through to Craigslist the ad had been flagged and removed. Below is a partial of what was written:

REWARD OFFERED FOR INFORMATION REGARDING the driver of a Silver/Gray 80s-early 90s model Cadillac with Maryland Handicapped plates.

This vehicle was involved in a HIT AND RUN Friday December 26th on US 13 South just south of US 50 overpass at or about 4:50 p.m. EST. The 80s model Silver Cadillac side-swiped the Chevy Blazer traveling south on US 13, forcing the Blazer off into a ditch, causing physical damage to the vehicle and injury to the driver of the Blazer.

If your neighbor has a silver Cadillac which shows damage ON THE DRIVER SIDE OF HIS CAR from an accident that he did not have prior to Friday, December 26th, contact me. THE TRUCK HE RAN OFF THE ROAD INTO A DITCH AND A TREE WAS TOTALED!!!

I would like to believe the fine, outstanding, honest and honorable people of Salisbury and the Eastern shore would volunteer information helping in the investigation of a HIT AND RUN involving injury, but… recent events have removed any such faith in the people I came to know and love as a child growing up in Crisfield and Salisbury.

So today, I choose a more dependable way to solicit help… I will PAY CASH for information that brings this HIT AND RUN DRIVER TO JUSTICE!!!! Click here to read the entire post.
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This type of thing really gets me that someone can cause an accident then keep on trucking without so much as a hello, goodbye screw you or nothing. I sent an e-mail to the address listed on the ad and received this response this morning.

So I sent an e-mail to the address listed to verify the incident and this is the response that was waiting in my inbox this morning.

Hi Billy!

Yes! Thanks for your interest.

December 26th, 2008 at 4:50 p.m., my son was returning to Crisfield where he is staying with my aunt, when he was forced off the road by a driver who made no effort to stop.
The incident occurred just south of the US-50 overpass, the north end of Salisbury’s US-13.

My son was driving southbound on US-13 and was in the left/inside lane when a male driver in a late 80’s model silver/gray Cadillac bearing Maryland handicapped license plates began tailgating him very close and then according to testimony of my son and his passenger, the car then whipped around on the passenger/right side of my son’s 1988 Chevy Blazer and according to information provided to me, side-swiped the Blazer forcing it off the road at highway speeds.

My son said it was all he could do to keep the truck from flipping over as it was sliding sideways into ditch/impression and before he could get the truck to a complete stop it slammed into a tree, totaling the vehicle, bending the frame dramatically. I placed an advertisement on craigslist/eastern shore and received a posting saying the vehicle was known in the Pocomoke area where it has been seen at the Walmart store there.

The responder said he drives US-13 on a regular basis and appears to be a classic car buff who pays attention to cars he sees on the road. He says there are not many of the year and model Cadillacs described on the eastern shore and this one has made appearances in Pocomoke and Princess Anne.

So I suspect this car makes treks from the Pocomoke area to the Delmar area where it appears he might have been coming from, perhaps returning home to Pocomoke or Princess Ann later that afternoon.

The car should not be hard to find… There can only be so many silver Cadillacs in lower Delmarva that were issued handicap license plates.

From the description I received, it is not hard to imagine this was an intentional ROAD RAGE incident where my son did not get out of his way fast enough so he ran my son off the road. An action that could very easily have been fatal.

The Blazer as seen prior to the afternoon of December 26th, 2008

I don’t know how vigorously local police go after this sort of thing… I suspect it will be CITIZENS who track this guy down. Any help you can provide in identifying the driver of the HIT AND RUN vehicle would be appreciated.

If this was ROAD RAGE and an intentional act, then the citizens of Delmarva are at risk every day this driver is on the loose.

Who will be NEXT? YOUR son or daughter? There’s just no way to know. If he did this once, then he is capable of doing it again and the fact that he did not bother or feel any obligation to stop to see if anyone was hurt… well that classifies this driver as dangerous. Who does that sort of thing? Runs people off the road and then does not care enough to stop to see if they are alive or dead?

This was a very violent roadway exit by this Blazer, it plowed dirt, jumped ditches and slid into a tree. This is a recipe for a fatality and yet… somehow… these kids got lucky.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

I am not sure if the Maryland State Police or Salisbury City Police responded to this scene, I have had a call in to find out, but so far…. Still waiting! My son is devastated by this. He had just purchased this truck so he would have transportation to look for a job in his newly chosen community he wanted so much to call home.

I was born in Crisfield, lived in Salisbury until age 21 when I moved to Las Vegas, NV, my home for 34 years. My son, now 25 was born in Las Vegas and ironically enough… he fell in love with Crisfield and THE SHORE and has decided that is where he wants to live. He had been there a week prior to this event.

Thank you,
Jon Dize
Stg2@cox.net
Below are photos of the Blazer being recovered from the accident scene 5:30 p.m. December 26th, 2008.
So my question to the readers is; can you help get this dangerous driver off the road?