‘My heart was beating so fast’: Lincoln couple chase driver after hit-and-run
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A Lincoln couple chased a car Saturday after the driver crashed into them and fled.
Malvika Vijju and her fiance were at the intersection of 27th and O streets around 4:30 p.m. when the crash happened.
“When the signal turns green, this car starts backing into us,” Vijju said. “We were, like, honking and kind of screaming in our own car and panicking because we don’t know what to do.”
The driver in front of them put on their blinker, so the couple thought they were going to stop and exchange information.
But that’s not what happened.
“She never pulled over,” Vijju said. “She just kept driving off, and we tried to chase her.”
Her fiance started driving after the car, following it for several minutes as Vijju tried to take clear pictures.
Channel 8 went on a drive with the couple as they retraced the path of their chase.
“They were trying to speed as much as they can,” said Vijju’s fiance, who wants to remain anonymous. “We didn’t want to get too close because we didn’t know how they would escalate things. But we didn’t want to lose them, either.”
Vijju said the driver was zigzagging through neighborhoods between Vine and O streets.
“They were trying to get rid of us as much as they could,” her fiance said.
During the chase, the couple called 911.
Vijju said the 911 operator told them to stop their chase, and they lost the driver.
She thinks there’s around $2,000 worth of damage to their car.
She also said the whole thing has shaken them.
“Obviously, we were speeding as well,” Vijju said. “I was shaking, literally, trying to take the pictures. My heart was beating so fast, and we were kind of panicking, too, but also trying to chase her. It was horrifying.”
She admitted chasing the car was not a good idea, but she said they were only going on instinct.
Vijju said Lincoln Police are not optimistic about finding the driver since the car only had in-transit papers.
But she’s asking whoever it was to come forward.
