Cheerleaders Do Good

A man who left an accident scene in the US was tracked down with the help of some cheerleaders who witnessed the crash and turned his licence plate number into a cheer, police said.

 

Members of the Lincoln High School varsity cheerleading squad from neighbouring Ypsilanti were in Ann Arbor for a Universal Cheerleaders Association’s camp when they saw the wreck near the University of Michigan campus.

 

“I knew I was going to not remember it because there was too much going on,” coach Patricia Clark said today on the NBC program Today.

 

“So, when I ran down the street and got the plate number, I yelled to the girls: ‘Remember this!'”

 

The cheerleaders put their skills to work, chanting the licence number.

 

“The coach just said it and we were saying it over and over, and then it just turned into a big chant since we kept repeating it,” said Kimmie Ostrowski, a senior captain for the team who also appeared on the program.

 

According to police reports, a truck hit a car stopped at a traffic light on Wednesday, and the impact forced that car into another vehicle, which then hit another one.

 

The truck driver, found at his home, told officers he didn’t think the damage was severe enough to stop, police Lieutenant Mike Logghe told The Ann Arbor News.

 

The man wasn’t arrested and his name wasn’t released, but police said he could face a misdemeanour charge of leaving the scene of an accident.