INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — An Oak Grove teenager is asking for the neighborhood’s assist in figuring out the motive force who hit his automotive and didn’t cease.
“It’s achieved,” Cody Madison mentioned. “It’s gone. There isn’t no saving it.”
Madison mentioned his 2004 Pontiac Grand Am was his lifeline. Now, it’s totaled.
“I don’t have a automotive now. Can’t do no delivering,” he mentioned.
On daily basis the automotive took the 19-year-old from house to house whereas he delivered meals for Door Sprint. Now, he’s with out his automotive and a job as a result of he mentioned somebody hit his automotive close to twenty third Avenue and Glenwood Avenue in Independence.
“After which that despatched me to a light-weight pole,” Madison mentioned. “I bit holes in my tongue and my face was hurting. That’s about it. No cuts, no bruises, no nothing.”
Madison mentioned he needed to name 911 himself as a result of nobody stopped to assist, not even the motive force who hit him.
“I’m not very joyful,” he mentioned. “I’m fairly upset as a result of I’m and not using a automotive, they usually clearly don’t care.”
His mother, Tara Taylor, mentioned his life is price greater than a automotive, however she’d like the one who hit him to return ahead.
“If there have been one thing occurring and that particular person was afraid the cops can be concerned, we may’ve labored one thing out or in the event that they didn’t have insurance coverage,” Tara Taylor, Cody’s mother mentioned. “I might’ve been extra grateful only for them to cease and examine on my son.”
Transferring ahead, Madison mentioned he’s centered on saving up for a brand new automotive so he can get again to creating deliveries.
Madison and his mother did file a report with Independence Police. They mentioned they’re ready to listen to again from investigators.
They’ve additionally created a GoFundMe account to assist Madison get one other automotive.
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