A 35-year-old single mother was rear-ended so hard her back windshield disappeared, and the person responsible couldn’t even be bothered to check if she was okay before speeding away. Now, Whitney Bruner is turning to the public for help finding the driver who left her stranded on the side of the highway in the pouring rain with a crumpled car and zero answers.
The crash happened around 7 a.m. on a rainy Wednesday morning on Interstate 69 near the 220-mile marker, just outside Indianapolis. Bruner was heading to work in Carmel when traffic suddenly slowed ahead of her after another vehicle spun out. That brief slowdown set off a chain of events she couldn’t have predicted, because the driver behind her apparently didn’t get the memo that traffic had stopped.
What makes this story even harder to believe is what happened in the seconds after impact. Bruner gathered herself, checked her surroundings, and turned around to assess the damage. The rear of her car was destroyed. Her rear window was gone. And the driver who had just slammed into her? Nowhere to be found. No pulled-over vehicle. No hazard lights blinking on the shoulder. Nothing. Just tire tracks and rain…