A mother and daughter from Washington were subject to a brutal hit and run as they returned home from a game of bingo. The daughter, who was leaving a bingo game at a local working club with her mother, was hit by a pickup truck and had a briefcase filled with money stolen by the truck’s passenger last Friday.
The crash happened on Friday night on Jefferson Avenue. The two were leaving the bingo game and walking towards a carpark where their vehicle was parked when a truck appeared and drove up on the curb, knocking victim Tracey Savage to the ground. Tracy had to be taken to a nearby hospital due to the injuries she sustained.
Describing the incident, Tracey said she was “Picked up and shoved forward, and next thing I know, I’m on my back under the carport”.
“I screamed and told my mom to call police.”
While her daughter was on the ground, her mother Mary Savage said she stood by in shock as two women stepped out of the truck, which was driven by a man, leading her to believe the attack had been pre-meditated.
“It was deliberate. They deliberately meant to hit one of us,” Mary Savage said. Describing what happened next, Tracy said “The case was a couple of feet away from me. They grabbed it and ran to the truck.”
The two run a local weekly game of bingo at the club and the two ladies were sure that the attack happened because the attackers knew they would be in possession of the profits. Washington Police were also confident of this theory, with Washington Police Detective Dan Stanek saying “We feel that they at least had some knowledge of when bingo lets out (and) who’s leaving with the money.”
“It’s a shame that someone’s got to steal money that way, to run them over with a pickup,” said the brother of the hospitalised woman. “And we have a description of the pickup. It’s a white Ford with a toolbox in the back.”
As some comfort, Tracy, who says she is incredibly sore and stiff, was admittedly pleased the truck hit her and not her mother, who weighs 98lbs and has to take medication for her brittle bones. “If it knocked her 10 feet, think how far it could have thrown me, and I could have been killed,” Mary Savage said.
We wish them both a speedy recovery, but hope that the people who did this to the bingo playing ladies will be caught. Whilst cases like this are rare in the world of bingo, we would urge all players of bingo, whether its in bingo halls or online bingo, to make sure that they are safe at all times.
