Couple's date night crashed when thief steals, totals car
Updated: 11:33 PM EST Feb 18, 2019
Mollie Lair
WEBVTT SATURDAY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DATE NIGHT FOR NATE AND CHRISTY KOSMAN. THE COUPLE MET UP WITH FRIENDS AT ANDERSON TOWN CENTER AND ORDERED AN UBER HOME. NATE GOT A CALL. >> SO I ANSWERED IT AND IT WAS AN OHIO STATE TROOPER. AND ASKED ME IF I HAD BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT AND I STILL DIDN'T PICK UP EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON. MOLLIE: THE KOSMAN'S HAD BEEN INSIDE FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS. SOMEONE HAD DRIVEN OFF IN THEIR CAR PARKED JUST OUTSIDE. >> AT THAT POINT THEY JUST SAID THE CAR WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE SO I WALKED OUTSIDE THE BAR TO SEE IF MY CAR WAS THERE AND SURE ENOUGH IT WAS GONE. MOLLIE: ONLY TO END UP CRASHED IN ANOTHER COUNTY. >> WE WOKE UP ABOUT 2:00 TO A BIG BOOM AND FLASHES OF LIGHT. WE LOOKED OUTSIDE AND THE TELEPHONE POLE WAS ON FIRE. AT FIRST I THOUGHT A TRANSFORMER HAD BLOWN BUT WE HAD SEEN A CAR ACROSS THE STREET. MOLLIE: KEVIN HAMBLIN WALKED OUTSIDE TO SEE ONE TELEPHONE SPLIT AND ANOTHER UP IN FLAMES. THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION LITTERED WITH PIECES OF KOSMAN'S CAR. >> THEY HAD SLID, TOOK OUT THE MAILBOX, CUT BIG RUTS THROUGH THE DITCH AND HIT THE TELEPHONE POLE AND IT SPLIT AND WENT ACROSS THE STREET AND HIT ANOTHER TELEPHONE POLE. MOLLIE: ANOTHER NEIGHBOR SAYS THEY SAW THE DRIVER RUN OFF. IT WASN'T UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON THAT THE KOSMAN'S SAW WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR INFINITI. >> WE WERE SHOCKED TO SEE THE CAR AND TO FIND OUT THAT SOMEBODY LIVED THROUGH THAT. MOLLIE: HAMBLIN WAS WITHOUT POWER HERE FOR ABOUT 18 HOURS. CREWS HAVE BEEN OUT TO REPLACE THE POLES AND A WATER LINE THIS IS THE SECOND ACCIDENT HERE IN FOUR MONTHS AND HAMBLIN SAYS HE JUST HOPES PEOPLE SLOW
A night out for an Anderson Township couple turned into a nightmare when their car was stolen and then totaled.It's about a 35-minute drive from where the car was stolen to Route 125 in Bethel to where it crashed.Saturday was supposed to be date night for Nate and Christy Kosman.The couple met up with friends at Anderson Towne Center and ordered an Uber home when Nate got a call. "I answered it and it was an Ohio State trooper. He asked me if I had been in an accident and I still didn't pick up exactly what was going on," said Nate Kosman. The Kosmans had been inside for about three hours.In that time, someone had driven off in their car parked outside."At that point, they just said the car was involved in an accident and I thought it was a joke. So I walked outside the bar to see if my car was there and, sure enough, it was gone," said Kosman.But a short time later, it ended up crashed in another county. "We woke up about 2 o'clock to a big boom and flashes of light," said Kevin Hamblin. "We looked outside and the telephone pole was on fire. At first, I thought a transformer had blown, but we had seen a car across the street."Hamblin walked outside to see one pole split into three and another up in flames.The path of destruction going through his front yard was littered with pieces of Kosman's car."They had slid, took out the mailbox, cut big ruts through the ditch and hit the telephone pole and it split and went across the street and hit another telephone pole," said Hamblin.Another neighbor said they saw the driver run off.It wasn't until Sunday afternoon that the Kosmans saw what was left of their Infiniti. "We were shocked to see the car and to find out that somebody lived through that," said Kosman.Hamblin was without power for about 18 hours. Crews have been out to replace the poles and a water line.This is the second accident there in four months and Hamblin said he just hopes people slow down.Anderson police are reviewing surveillance cameras from the parking lot where the car was stolen.If you have any information, give police a call.
ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio —
A night out for an Anderson Township couple turned into a nightmare when their car was stolen and then totaled.
It's about a 35-minute drive from where the car was stolen to Route 125 in Bethel to where it crashed.
Saturday was supposed to be date night for Nate and Christy Kosman.
The couple met up with friends at Anderson Towne Center and ordered an Uber home when Nate got a call.
"I answered it and it was an Ohio State trooper. He asked me if I had been in an accident and I still didn't pick up exactly what was going on," said Nate Kosman.
The Kosmans had been inside for about three hours.
In that time, someone had driven off in their car parked outside.
"At that point, they just said the car was involved in an accident and I thought it was a joke. So I walked outside the bar to see if my car was there and, sure enough, it was gone," said Kosman.
But a short time later, it ended up crashed in another county.
"We woke up about 2 o'clock to a big boom and flashes of light," said Kevin Hamblin. "We looked outside and the telephone pole was on fire. At first, I thought a transformer had blown, but we had seen a car across the street."
Hamblin walked outside to see one pole split into three and another up in flames.
The path of destruction going through his front yard was littered with pieces of Kosman's car.
"They had slid, took out the mailbox, cut big ruts through the ditch and hit the telephone pole and it split and went across the street and hit another telephone pole," said Hamblin.
Another neighbor said they saw the driver run off.
It wasn't until Sunday afternoon that the Kosmans saw what was left of their Infiniti.
"We were shocked to see the car and to find out that somebody lived through that," said Kosman.
Hamblin was without power for about 18 hours. Crews have been out to replace the poles and a water line.
This is the second accident there in four months and Hamblin said he just hopes people slow down.
Anderson police are reviewing surveillance cameras from the parking lot where the car was stolen.
If you have any information, give police a call.