Driver will likely face charges following hit-and-run crash in Uniontown

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UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A hit-and-run crash in Uniontown damaged two vehicles on Sunday night, totaling one of them.

”I was in my bedroom right here and heard it, it was like a bomb went off and I came out and saw my car and I was pretty upset about it,” Angela Soom said.

Soom found her SUV parked in front of her house on Coolspring Street in Uniontown mangled and totaled.

The impact was so hard that it not only caused significant damage to her SUV and her fence, but the force pushed her car into her neighbor’s truck.

It is her family’s only means of transportation.”I take her to doctor’s appointments. My mother is disabled she can’t see, I take her to her appointments,” Soom explained.

”It actually pushed into my car and hit his truck,” Soom said.

”Troopers were at another incident when they heard a loud crash,” Trooper Kalee Barnhart said.

It turns out that the driver who took off was not far away.”They were able to follow a trail of leaking fluid and found that at-fault vehicle at the residence,” Barnhart said.

While Soom waits to find out if the hit-and-run driver has any insurance to cover any of the costs of her SUV, she’s realizing she could be left high and dry without a vehicle.

”This morning, I followed up with my insurance and I just have liability and they said there’s nothing they can do. If he doesn’t have insurance, that’s it, there’s nothing they can do about it,” Soom said.

State police said that the driver will likely be charged with at least several summary offenses.

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