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Pickup flips onto east-end driveway and abandoned, still no arrests

'Looks like they came around the corner off Napier, hit the snowbank and it flipped,' says resident

An early Friday morning single-vehicle collision left a pickup truck flipped onto an east-end driveway and police with no arrests.

Jennifer Caceres said she and her husband didn’t hear anything until police came to their door just after 3 a.m., Friday.  

“Our dogs are fired,” said Caceres. “We just woke up to police at our door and they said there had been an accident at the end of our driveway and if we could come out. We assumed it was at the corner, not right in our driveway.”

The driveway, at the corner of Napier and Cook streets in Barrie’s east end, saw a pickup truck flipped onto its passenger side and resting on the Caceres driveway against a van.

Caceres said her husband's work van was damaged and he took another vehicle to work.

“Looks like they came around the corner off Napier, hit the snowbank and it flipped,” she said. “We asked how the driver was, but they weren’t there. (Police) ran the plates and were sending someone to the address.

"Their keys and cellphone were found in the truck," Caceres added.

The canine unit was brought in, but Barrie police communications co-ordinator Peter Leon told BarrieToday on Friday that no arrests have been made and the incident appeared to be a fail-to-remain crash. The canine unit was unable to pick up a track.

“Looks like the suspected driver may have been picked up as the track went cold,” said Leon.

BarrieToday reached out to police again Sunday morning and were told there were no new developments in the investigation.