At 2:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28, the security camera on the side of Wayne Motors, a family-owned repair shop on Dickerson Street in Far North Dallas, Texas, recorded a car leaving the road, going through the guardrail and hitting the building. Three people from a second car got the driver out through a window as the car started to burn. By the time officers arrived, all four were gone, Dallas police told NBC 5. On Tuesday, the shop posted a follow-up on Facebook: “UPDATE: After crashing into our building Monday, they came back… and removed the license plates.”
Nobody was hurt, according to police, and the shop’s owner has said repeatedly that he is relieved about that. It also means the law that governs this crash is the one written for property. In Texas, a crash that damages only a building carries one main duty: tell the owner. Leaving without doing that is an offense on its own, separate from whatever sent the car off the road.
What the Wayne Motors camera recorded
The shop posted its own footage on Facebook with the caption “We don’t care how you get here just get here fast.” The camera’s timestamp reads 2026-09-28 02:00:17 as the clip begins. Dallas Fire-Rescue said reports indicated the vehicle “crashed into the building and caught on fire,” CBS News Texas reported. Firefighters put the fire out quickly.
Owner Jason Wright told NBC 5 the marks on his property showed the car’s path. “I guess it came from that direction and I guess it like spun around, and the tires were up against the wall face down,” he said. The station described a mangled guardrail and a cracked, charred facade. Wright said drivers speed through that stretch and there have been wrecks before, but nothing like this one, NBC 5 reported…