A driver slammed into multiple parked cars early Tuesday in Northwest D.C., police say, hitting one of the cars hard enough to flip it over onto the sidewalk.
The dark-colored SUV crashed into about eight cars in the 600 block of Q Street, in the Shaw neighborhood, just before 4 a.m., the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
Some residents said the sight was like something out of a movie.
“I was upstairs just minding my own business. My friend had just left, and I really thought like the 'Transformers' were rolling through here, Optimus Prime ripping up these cars and everything,” a resident said. “And I come down and it really did look like that.”
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The owner of a red car that was flipped over, who did not want to be named, said her father got her attention when he noticed her car was no longer where she had parked it.
“I heard a loud crash, and I thought it was thunder or something like that. So, I actually started going back to sleep," she said. "And then my dad came into my room, and he was like, you need to go outside. Your car is totaled.”
Late Tuesday morning, the sunlight revealed smashed, twisted and wrecked cars along the street. A Volkswagen Beetle was pushed against the side of the sidewalk and a blue car was scraped on the passenger side.
The owner of a Mercedes was emotional when she saw her car with its front crunched and pushed up to the windshield. The car was nicknamed “Vigo.”
“My grandmother used to call me that, so it had a little special meaning to me,” the owner said. "It was always out here when I needed to run an errand, it was right there waiting. So, I'm going to miss that.”
D.C. police said a male driver was arrested for driving under the influence. No additional information was immediately released.
No injuries were reported.
Some of the damaged vehicles were towed away.
This is a developing story. Stay with News4 for more updates.
