What started as a peaceful Saturday night in Downtown Corpus Christi ended in chaos for Jared Medina and his girlfriend when a speeding driver slammed into his vehicle before hitting a horse-drawn carriage.
The crash happened before 11pm, along North Shoreline Blvd., just feet from the Corpus Christi Bay. Medina, driving his new maroon Dodge Challenger, said he and his girlfriend were headed home when they noticed another vehicle speed near them. In a matter of seconds, they driver hit Medina.
Driver recounts moments of hit and run crash involving horse-drawn carriage
“And then out of nowhere, the car shook up and we got hit from the back,” Medina said.
Dashcam video sent to KRIS 6 News by a viewer shows the green car speeding before the impact. And sharing the road during the incident was the horse-drawn carriage. The video shows the driver swerving to the right before colliding with the carriage, causing it to flip over and throwing the carriage coachman onto the ground…