OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) – A woman is frustrated after she took her late-husband’s $50,000 Polaris RZR to an Oklahoma City mechanic and they wrecked it, a year-and-a-half later and they still haven’t fixed it.
“He loved this thing, it was his baby,” said Mechele Abbott.
Abbott’s husband James died in 2022 from a respiratory illness.
She said one thing he loved was his 2018 special edition Polaris RZR with several rare modifications to it.
After he passed, Mechele took it to their typical mechanic shop in OKC, Maxey’s Motorsports.
“I felt good about bringing it there because it’s where he brought it when he was alive,” said Abbott.
According to her records, she brought it there several times for different reasons like a belt or an oil change but on February 8, 2023, she said an employee took it on a joy ride through the neighborhood behind the business.
“He wrecked it,” said Abbott.
A police report details that the employee saw a child near the road, a father came out telling the employee to slow down, and the employee quickly turned to avoid hitting the child. Then, the report stated the RZR flipped and caused massive damage.