Paloma Screwvala’s parked black Toyota Corolla was totalled Saturday night by a hit-and-run driver in Streetsville — and she hopes security-camera footage will help track that rogue motorist down.

“The tow truck driver said he’d seen accidents on the highway that weren’t as bad as this one,” she said about what remained on her residential street of her car, which was less than a year old — she got it in January.

Luckily, her next-door neighbour, Ryan Lai, had caught the entire incident on his home’s security system.

In the video, the offending car rams into Paloma’s parked car on McFarren Blvd. at 6:43 p.m. and pushes it forward several metrres. It appears that the driver’s airbags went off, but the motorist reversed and drove away.

The video also shows other cars driving by the house both before and after the incident. After the offender drives away, another car goes by just three seconds later.

Screwvala’s family was leaving the house on their way to a dinner party at the time of the crash, at 6:45 p.m.; if they’d left a few minutes earlier, they could have witnessed, or even got caught in, the collision.

She said police told her it would be nearly impossible to find the offender without a licence plate, but they drove around the block to do a search of the area.

Screwvala lives right beside the intersection of McFarren Blvd. and Thomas St. She says police told her the driver was likely going about 30 kilometres over the speed limit, at about 80 kilometres per hour.

“There’s a (stop sign) literally right in front of my house,” she says, “They may have run (it) because they were going so fast.”

Screwvala thinks there is a good chance that the damage will be written off by her insurance company, but she wants to hold the driver accountable, and hopes that someone in her neighbourhood will have more information, or security footage in which a licence plate number is visible.

Const. Rachel Gibbs of the Peel Regional Police says they are investigating the incident and searching for a dark sedan.

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