On April 8 at about 7:15 p.m. a vehicle smashed into a white scooter sitting for sale on Fairway Avenue in Sechelt and owner Merideth Frost is looking for the community’s assistance to catch the culprit.
Frost had just put her 2005 Honda Jazz scooter at the end of her driveway for sale, hoping to upgrade to something a little better for this summer, and within two hours someone crashed into it.
“I had literally just put it out,” Frost said.
She’s a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital and was sitting with her disabled husband in their home on Fairway Avenue when she heard the crash outside. She quickly jumped up to see what had happened but missed seeing the vehicle, which she said sounded like a diesel truck.
What she did see was her scooter lying about 10 feet away from where she parked it “and pieces of it were all the way down the driveway.”
She also heard the diesel truck making its way down Fairway Avenue into the Shores area.
Sunshine Coast RCMP responded and after Frost made her complaint with the police, she tried to get reimbursed for the damaged scooter through her house insurance but was told the scooter wasn’t covered.
She had pulled street insurance off the vehicle for the winter and had not yet replaced it.
With no insurance and no one responsible coming forward Frost says her family’s out the $1,500 sale price of the scooter.
“I want the person to come forward and say ‘I’m sorry’ and give me the money that it’s worth,” Frost said. “It’s not insured, I don’t have the money to pay for it and I’m the only person who works.”
She is also asking the community for any tips they might have about the person who crashed into her scooter.
“By the sound of it, and from the burnt rubber markings on the left side of the scooter, it must have gotten caught underneath the front right passenger side of the truck,” Frost said, noting there should be some noticeable damage.
If you have any information about this collision contact the Sunshine Coast RCMP at 604-885-2266 and quote file number 2014-2080.
