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Amazon driver flees after hitting Castro Valley teenager on bike
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Amazon driver flees after hitting Castro Valley teenager on bike

A Castro Valley couple expressed their outrage on Friday after their 14-year-old son was hit by a Amazon Delivery Driver who then fled the scene.

“You hit a human being. You hit somebody and you don’t have the grace to do the right thing?” Rosabel Chang asked.

David Moler, her husband, said: “I would just like some consequences. For example, this is a person who breaks the law.”

Surveillance video captured the couple’s son on a bicycle being hit by an Amazon driver backing up in a Castro Valley driveway. To make matters worse, the driver drove off without stopping.

“A person who can hit someone and knows they hit someone and runs away. That person can do it again,” Chang said.

The incident happened around 7:15 on Monday. The video shows the driver getting out of the Toyota RAV4 at a residence near Somerset and Santa Maria avenues in Castro Valley.

The video clearly shows the man’s face as he delivers Amazon Fresh groceries to the home’s front porch and stops to take the required delivery confirmation photo.

After the driver got back into the car, he reversed and collided with the teenager’s bike as the boy headed to nearby Castro Valley High School. The director even witnessed the impact.

The boy suffered minor injuries and the front wheel of his bike was demolished.

“He acknowledged us, I think he yelled, like, ‘What the (expletive)’ and at no point did the driver roll down his window, at no point did he get out,” Chang said.

A woman delivering groceries told KTVU that after witnessing the incident on her Ring camera, she tried to stop the fleeing driver.

“I saw him just starting to pull away and I tried to stop him. But he didn’t stop. He just sped off,” she said.

Although a California Highway Patrol officer filed a report, the Toyota RAV4 had no front license plate. Amazon told the CHP it would not release any details without a subpoena.

“This is like a silver platter. You can get this information. You can issue the subpoena. Amazon can support it, whatever. The parties can work together. But that’s not hidden, right?” Chang said.

CHP Officer Kylie Musselman said that while the initial CHP report said the case should be closed, investigators are following Amazon.

“We anticipate that we will be able to get the information that we need,” Musselman said. “It shouldn’t be too hard to find who was driving or who was making that delivery.”

Henry Lee is a KTVU crime reporter. Email Henry at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com/henrykleefan