CRESTVIEW — A Saturday morning mechanical failure left a 1999 Corvette damaged in the woods off Farmer Street and its owner heartbroken.
“I love that car,” he said. “It’s something I wish I didn’t have to be seeing.”
The owner, a Crestview resident who didn’t give his name, said he had worked hard to buy the car. He was giving his younger brother a ride when the car suddenly veered off the road at a bend shortly north of the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce.
Tire tracks showed the car rode the curbing for a short distance while the driver struggled with the steering before jumping the curb. The driver believes the sports car’s control arm broke but won’t know for sure until the car is raised on a lift.
“I was trying to turn that way and it went the other way,” he said.
Neither the driver nor his brother was injured in the mishap. The owner could not estimate the damage to the Corvette until it could be extracted from the woods where it came to rest.
He estimated he was driving around 30 mph when the accident occurred. Both occupants were wearing seatbelts.
Editor's Note: A previous version of this article referred to the vehicle as "classic" and "vintage." We removed these references in the revised article.
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