Hit-and-run on I-485 caught on dash cam, driver still not found

CHARLOTTE, NC — A “pendulum” is how Jessie Haynes describes the car caught on camera recklessly bobbing and weaving through traffic moments before it crashes into her and her daughter, Eliana.

“Like my memory, it’s just like it kind of went blank. I didn’t know what was going on,” said 11-year-old Eliana.

The crash whipped their SUV into the express lane, in front of another driver who caught the whole thing on camera. Haynes believes the reckless driver was going at least 90 miles per hour when they hit her.

This alarming crash happened Saturday afternoon in south Charlotte on 485 near the Pineville exit.

“When I look at the video and I see what happened, and then I look at my car, it doesn’t make sense to me. It feels like it should have been a lot worse,” explained Haynes.

Unfortunately, for Haynes this isn’t the first time she’s fallen victim to a hit-and-run. Haynes says she would like to see more troopers on the highway to deter other careless drivers. A police report was filed but days later, the driver still has not been found. Despite a crash that could have ended in injury or worse, 11-year-old Eliana Tripp isn’t mad at the driver. Instead, she’s praying for them.

“God wants us to love everybody, even though, like they might be mean or anything. Because you never know what somebody’s going through,” explained Tripp.

Haynes says the driver was going too fast to get a license plate number but, she believes the car is an older model g35 Infiniti.

We reached out to highway patrol to get an update on the case, they have not responded.