August
8, 2005

Sis, boom, busted

Cheerleaders
help police catch driver who left accident scene

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- A man
who left an accident scene was tracked down with the help of some
cheerleaders who witnessed the crash and turned his license plate number into
a cheer, police said.

Members of the Lincoln High School
varsity cheerleading squad from neighboring 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 Monday on NBC's "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 license 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 "Today."

According to police reports, a
truck hit a car stopped at a traffic light 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 Lt. 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 misdemeanor charge of
leaving the scene of an accident.

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