crash_reports: 2000000419

On August 1, 2020 I responded to a single motor vehicle crash at 1200 Walnut St. I spoke to the owner of MV1 who said that he parked MV1 in front of 1177 Walnut St to run across the street and pick up his mail. When he exited his vehicle, he noticed that his vehicle began rolling southbound on Walnut St and crashed into city poles in front of 1200 Walnut St. The owner of MV1 said that he had recently got his vehicle inspected but periodically would have the brake light come on and was planning on contacting his mechanic. MV1 has a manual transmission, and the owner said that he put the vehicle in gear, shut the vehicle off and used the electronic emergency brake. He believes that the emergency brake may have malfunctioned, causing the vehicle to roll southbound on Walnut St and crash. As a result of the crash, MV1 sustained front end damage and there was visible damage to the city poles (used to protect the tree on the sidewalk). Officer Raymond took photographs of the damaged city property and submitted them to IT to be attached to this report.