Megan Harrison was stopped behind a school bus when a man driving behind her just couldn’t wait. He slammed into her Jeep Eagle — then fled.
His truck hit the Eagle so hard that the entire back window shattered, and Harris would have to go to the hospital.
The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of Goffe Terrace and WInthrop Avenue. Several bystanders were out on the street at the time. They noted the fleeing driver’s license plate number and gave it to the police. The cops acted fast and caught up with the driver on West Division Street. The driver, who’s 58, was arrested on charges of evading and following another car too closely. He, too, went to the hospital for injuries related to the crash.
The driver told police he had fled the scene “because he didn’t want his truck towed because he had a lot of tools in it,” reported department spokesman Officer Joe Avery.
Harris, who lives on the west side of town, had been on her way to visit her mother in Wooster Square, according to her father, Peter Harrison (pictured at the scene with Lt. Sydney Collier). Megan called her father immediately after the accident, and he rushed over. As an ambulance took Megan away, Peter said his daughter was basically OK, but “she’ll feel it tomorrow.” he said his daughter is an athlete: “It used to be competitive swimming. Now it’s yoga. Intense yoga.”
Megan was treated at the Hospital of St. Raphael Wednesday afternoon and released the same day, according to a spokesman.