Brookfield police on Aug. 5 responded to a delayed report of a hit and run incident, but no one was arrested.
Around 3:15 p.m., an officer responded to the 9000 block of Monroe Avenue on the delayed report and spoke to the complainant, who said his vehicle, which was parked on the 3300 block of Oak Avenue, had been struck. The man said he noticed a note had been left on his windshield by a good Samaritan who informed him the offending vehicle was a Dutch Farms delivery truck.
The officer observed damage to the passenger side wheel well and the front bumper of the man’s car. The man said he had last parked the car, undamaged, at about 11 a.m. that morning.
Around 3:25 p.m., the officer made contact with Dutch Farms and spoke with a supervisor, who said their trucks have GPS and record video. She said a truck had made a delivery to Tischler Finer Foods around noon, about three blocks from where the man’s car was parked. The supervisor said Dutch Farms representatives had inspected the delivery truck and did not notice any obvious damage; she reviewed the video footage from the truck and said there was no physical contact between the truck and the man’s parked car, though the camera was facing directly forward, and the video did not capture sound.
The officer reviewed the footage independently and did not observe the truck hitting the parked car, although it made a wide turn from Oak Avenue west onto Monroe Avenue.
The supervisor told the officer she would need to contact the driver before sending along his information.
On Aug. 8, the officer tried to call the truck driver around 7:45 a.m. Around 10:25 a.m., they called the supervisor, who said the driver would reach out soon. Around noon, the driver spoke with the officer and said his truck never made contact with the parked car and that he didn’t hear any sounds suggesting it had. He told police he would have immediately stopped and called police himself if he noticed he had struck the car, as he depends on his driver’s license for work.
The officer spoke to the original car owner and explained that due to a lack of proof the truck had struck his car, police could not fill out a formal crash report.
These items were obtained from the Brookfield Police Department reports dated Aug. 4-11; they represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
