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"A Family Tradition for 133 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 20, 1999 - 15 She's unable to work without a car A { Rebecca Brehme with the car she says _ was damaged in a hit and run accident Island woman wants hit | Gib iSeeis say there's litt ae sam a and run investigated By Chris Hall Port Perry Star A Scugog Island woman is looking for answers after she became a victim of a hit-and-run accident recently in Oshawa. Rebecca Brehme, a single mother of two, is concerned about her future after being hit from behind while travelling west on Taunton Rd. by an older-model Ford pickup truck sometime around 11 p.m. on March 20. Ms Brehme recalls driving alone in her gold 1984 Volkswagen Jetta at around the speed limit when the truck rammed her from behind. | "I was going up a hill and in the distance I noticed someone coming and when I checked again there he was right behind me, and two seconds later he smashed into me," she said. "He didn't swerve, he didn't brake... he was right on top of me and he must have been doing twice the limit. That was it, my car was wrecked." The pickup quickly fled the scene, says Ms Brehme, who suspects the driver was either under suspension or intoxicated. She wasn't seriously injured in the acci- these days." Ms Brehme is employed by the Family & Community Action Program (FCAP) as a home visitor. With no vehicle, she has been forced to give away six of her clients, cutting down her income. She is currently looking at other self-employment opportunities. "I guess I'm lucky to be alive and not injured," she said. "There's another guy out there who's lucky too... he's doing okay and I'm out a car and pretty much a job." She is, however, not giving up. "I sent a friend back to the scene to pick up some pieces and we're going to have them analyzed," she said. She's sent out faxes to area body shops to look out for black Ford pickups with a winch on the front that may be getting some work done, | : "I just have to wait and see; I have to be positive and everything will be fine, everything will pass. I just have to build my life up again," said Ms Brehme. Constable Shaun Arnott of the Durham Regional Police Traffic Management Unit in Oshawa says there's not much officers sparse 288 on WHEN RESULTS COUNT, CALL YOUR #1 TEAM ROBERT & CAROLYN HALL 985-4300 * 985-7718 E deni tting in touch with a Durh can do in a case like this, with such limited office residence § er getting in touch with a Durham jpformation. i ! Police officer, she had her car towed to a "If we had some suspect information Sutton Group Lifestyle p Myrtle garage, where it remains. The we could follow up on it, but it is only ben- Real Estate Limited frame was bent in the accident and was efjicial if we had a plate number, or at . 126 WATER ST., PORT PERRY pretty much destroyed, she said. She had Jeast a partial number," he told The Star. no collision insurance on the car. ] "Sometimes if we can get a make, model "When the officer got there he just and year we can submit a request to the looked around and said there was nothing Ministry of Transportation and get some- he could do and said it was time to tow thing from the OPP," he said. it," said Ms Brehme. , "But, if we only know it's a black older ."I'm happy to be okay, but now I can't Ford pickup and we have officers on gen- work because I don't have a car. My job is eral patrol looking for it.... well, it's a long helping people, but I'm not much help shot, and you know the odds." Chamber members to hear talk on Y2K issues I The Scugog Chamber of Commerce topic. 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