'Passed me like 50 miles an hour': Driver charged after high-speed crash caught on camera
A high-speed crash in Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood early Sunday morning was caught on home surveillance and dash cameras, showing a driver speeding through the streets before colliding with another vehicle.
Neighbors say they were jolted awake around 1 a.m. by the sound of an SUV racing down Spruce Street. "This sound - bomb bomb," said resident Richard Herskovitz, whose camera recorded the incident.
Herskovitz said the driver sped past his home at an alarming pace. "He was spinning around, and he passed me like 50 miles an hour sideways," he said.
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Now the details. A man is facing charges
after a wild scene on the streets of
Society Hill. Surveillance video
capturing a driver speeding through a
red light on Spruce Street, driving up a
bike lane and slamming into several
cars. Action News reporter Cheyenne
Corin live for us in Society Hill.
Cheyenne, the community now calling for
action.
Greg, police say that driver was
actually fleeing from a traffic stop.
It's almost unbelievable that no one was
hurt because there's actually still
damage here on Spruce Street. If you
look in the street, you can see that
there's still skid marks just showing
you how fast that SUV was moving. Then
on the sidewalk, a mangled tree fence.
Neighbors in the area, they just keep
saying they are imagining how much worse
this could have ended.
>> The sound of a boom boom and then boom
boom boom boom.
The sound of this SUV speeding through
Spruce Street awakened neighbors in
Society Hill around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday.
One of those people is Richard
Herskovitz, and his home surveillance
camera captured the entire thing.
>> He was spinning around and he passed me
like at 50 mph sideways.
>> Joshua Gman was in an Uber near Fifth
and Spruce when the SUV raced by.
>> Before I even know what's happening,
this guy just comes speeding on by in
the bike lane. um and runs the light
like doesn't break at all before the
light.
>> He shared this dash camera video with
Action News. It shows the moment the SUV
was t-boned by a sedan that had the
right of way. It
>> was just crazy to to see and everything
unfolded so quickly like we were
screaming and
>> if you look at the tree
on the side here, see where it's dented
in? So, it bounced off that and then
bounced into the cars across there. The
crash damaged multiple cars, left tire
marks, and wrecked a tree fence.
Philadelphia police IDed the driver as
43-year-old Terrence Williams. They say
he had just fled from a traffic stop
blocks away on South Front Street.
>> And it's always the people that drive
like maniacs and and do stuff like that
that nothing happens to them. There is
no repercussion. While no one was
seriously injured, cyclist Joe
Pishhatello says next time we may not
get this lucky, he's pushing for
measures to reduce speeding. We've been
advocating that if we slow down the
traffic and keep people out of the bike
lanes, there's less of a chance of being
of people being injured.
>> And police say the driver did have
multiple warrants out for his arrest. He
currently is being charged for fleeing
an officer. Live in Society Hill,
Cheyenne Corin, Channel 6 Action News.
Sarah,
>> yeah, we're commenting on the videos
back here. Just wild.