Police say an 18-year-old Davenport Ridge Road woman faces motor vehicle charges after admitting that she had struck a parked car in the rear lot at New Canaan High School on Friday afternoon and then panicked and drove off without notifying authorities.
It happened just after 3 p.m. on May 29, according to a police report. According to an eye witness (a 68-year-old bus driver), a blue Audi sedan speeding north in the rear parking lot of the school stopped suddenly, went into reverse, veered to the right and struck a parked Nissan Altima, the report said. The motorist then drove to the main parking lot of the high school, the report said.
Police soon heard from the owner of the blue Audi, a 20-year-old male who saw the damage to his own car and thought someone had struck it, the report said.
He told police that he wasn’t involved in an accident but that he had given his keys earlier to a friend, a senior at NCHS, who had needed to get her phone charger from the car, the report said.
Police confronted that friend, the 18-year-old woman, and she admitted that she decided when she got the keys to drive the car around the school, got into the accident and panicked.
She was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a license, evading responsibility and using a vehicle without the owner’s permission. She was released on $100 bond and scheduled to appear June 9 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.